Although we have been living here for 4 months we are still finding new areas to explore. We have found a new footpath close to the house which takes us down into Whitehall, the heart of Watchet and on to further footpaths steeply climbing the green hills opposite our house. We have gathered sloe berries on the Old Mineral Line trail and blackberries from the slopes of the Quantock Hills and have sloe gin and blackberry vodka slowly maturing for Christmas consumption.
This morning we took a short drive along the A39 and explored trails through the St. Audries Forestry Commission pines with distant views of the silver grey waters of the Bristol Channel. The large sinister black block of Hinkley Point nuclear power station was visible to the east. Cadbury, our chocolate Labrador who was 10 years old on Sunday was delighted by the choice of overlarge "sticks" to play with in the undergrowth and found a relatively clean pond to splash about in.
On the way back we discovered a small car park in the shadow of 2 huge lime kilns, which gave access to the Jurassic coastal beach at Doniford. Cadbury enjoyed swimming in the sea and chasing a yellow rubber ball which she found. The sun transformed the wet sand into a shining silver mirror and I was delighted to spot a fossil ammonite on one of the large rocks on the beach.
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