The Approach to Cave Bay

From Shrewsbury Chapel we walked along to Harrismith Road (or Harry Smith, as on some maps) and turned right towards the coast. This is a mid- to upscale residential area, and the houses get ever more opulent as you get close to the sea.

At the end of the road, an arid, grassy plain opened up before us. We started across it, feeling very hot and exposed (rather like the old lady in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native who has to cross Egdon Heath).

We would have been more cheerful if we had known what we were about to see ...