Mon 26th April - Day 10, Maer to Stoke (14 miles)

Another sunny start, the same as yesterday, with very little wind, on the top of the cliffs I could see the path rolling ahead for about 5 miles, an easy looking walk among the gorse but I knew there would be a series of steep climbs at each of the inlets and streams. This was a relatively remote part of the walk with no watering holes that I could see from the map, each of the small sandy bays had a road leading to it with a car park but nothing else. I had a half hour break at Steeple Pt watching surfers at Duckpool and stopped for lunch at Marsland Cliff, the morning haze had only just cleared. The stream below at Marsland Mouth was the boundary between Cornwall & Devon. Going up the path the other side of this stream a lizard ran across just in front of me and dived into a hole, I stopped to watch it for a while as it kept poking its head out to check if the path was clear. A bit higher up I came across Ronald Duncan's hut, “Poet & Playwright 1914-1982�, he built this so that he could write while looking out on the spectacular views. The hut is a welcome feature for walkers, providing shelter from the bad weather and a supply of bottled water. I signed the guest book but could find no entry for any other LEJOG’ers. Like yesterday this was a spectacular walk, I reached Hartland Quay at 16:00 after being on the go from 07:30 so I decided to call it a day here and I walked into Stoke to stay at the campsite there. 146 miles completed.