Spring Walks #1 - Seaford Head to Cuckmere Haven
On 6th April my friend A and I spent the morning pottering around Lewes, the early afternoon visiting Monks House (Virginia and Leonard Woolf's place in the country) and the late afternoon doing a little stroll by the sea.
The weather was absolutely glorious and I've never seen the sea so calm. The views of the Seven Sisters (the chalk cliffs) were superb.
View from Hope Gap
One of the (former?) coastguard cottages
Garden of one of the cottages
Going down towards Cuckmere Haven
The gentle waves lapping the shore make it seem more like a lake than the Channel.
Looks like smoke in Birling Gap but it's actually just mist forming in the valley as evening falls
The lighthouse in the far distance is Belle Tout, which was famously moved back from the cliff edge a few years ago. The erosion has increased and it will be in danger again in a few more years.
The classic view over the coastguard cottages
Wild violets in the grass
The Cuckmere valley
Note the giant bunny in the foreground; the rabbits we saw that day (lots of them) looked huge. Maybe it was just a trick of the light.
Guess which way the wind blows?
Intriguing path leading off into a tangled wood
We didn't take it; maybe next time.
The weather was absolutely glorious and I've never seen the sea so calm. The views of the Seven Sisters (the chalk cliffs) were superb.
View from Hope Gap
One of the (former?) coastguard cottages
Garden of one of the cottages
Going down towards Cuckmere Haven
The gentle waves lapping the shore make it seem more like a lake than the Channel.
Looks like smoke in Birling Gap but it's actually just mist forming in the valley as evening falls
The lighthouse in the far distance is Belle Tout, which was famously moved back from the cliff edge a few years ago. The erosion has increased and it will be in danger again in a few more years.
The classic view over the coastguard cottages
Wild violets in the grass
The Cuckmere valley
Note the giant bunny in the foreground; the rabbits we saw that day (lots of them) looked huge. Maybe it was just a trick of the light.
Guess which way the wind blows?
Intriguing path leading off into a tangled wood
We didn't take it; maybe next time.