A Good Sound Walk

I think somewhere burrowed in the annals of this blog is a walk around the Meayll Peninsula. Well, here's another one! However, it isn't quite the same because as it had been raining quite heavily in the days previous to our visit, we decided to stick to the roads.

If you walk past the 'Bay Hotel,' just to the right is a small very steep lane up to a couple of private homes that once were guest houses.



You find yourself on the Darrag Road which is basically an initially sharply contoured single track, approximately a mile long which passes Ballaman, formerly owned by racing driver, Nigel Mansell and eventually joins the road to the Sound just below Cregneash.

I don't think I've ever seen quite so many seals on Kitterland (which is a further mile down to the Cafe)but unfortunately, the camera on my phone was quite good enough to pick them out in an unblurry fashion.

On our way back, we continued up past Cregneash (the thatched village preserved as it was in the first half of the last century as a working museum and on to the Howe.



We then turned on to the Glen Chas Road which leads both to the Chasms and also to Port St Mary. 'The Bay View Pub' has fallen on hard times in recent years but luckily, it has been taken over and the Landlord is investing time and money on refurbishment and also fortunately, the beer garden with the best view on the Island.

We arrived at just at the best part of the day for a swift one after our exercise but ended up missing about three buses before could tear ourselves away home.