COAST TO COAST MAY 2015 - DAY TEN

KIRKBY STEPHEN TO ROBIN HOOD'S BAY

DAY TEN - RUSWARP TO ROBIN HOOD'S BAY - 8 MILES

We chose to walk from our overnight stay at Ruswarp back to the route we had left at Hawsker.

Leaving the village behind we followed the Esk Valley Walk until we got to the track of the former railway line that used to run south to Scarborough.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_and_Whitby_Railway

 

The route goes over a dramatic viaduct over the River Exe from which we got this view of Whitby Abbey http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/whitby-abbey/

  

View off the viaduct up the Esk to Ruswarp.

View in the same direction later on from the former railway track. The track took us through Stainscare and Hawsker where we re-joined the Coast to Coast. After stopping in the café at the caravan park in Hawsker Bottoms we continued to the coast.

Here the Coast to Coast joins the North York Moors Coast Path for the final three miles into Robin Hood's Bay.

The view from that point north towards Whitby.

Our route heading south east.

View from Clock Case Nab towards Normanby Stye Batts

Turning south west into Robin Hood's Bay we get the first view of the town. https://www.robin-hoods-bay.co.uk/

We descended down through the narrow streets to the bottom by the beach.

Tourist shops, cafes and pubs abound. I bought a tee-shirt and a rucksack badge. Dipped my boots in the sea and put the stone I had carried from the Irish Sea into the North Sea as tradition demands. The group had their photograph taken to record the completion of the expedition

I had a photograph taken at the finishing board attached to a wall opposite the Wainwright Bar and then made my way up through the town again to the Victoria Inn for lunch a few beers and then waited for the Packhorse mini-bus to take us back to Kirkby Stephen.

 

Thanks to Packhorse for sorting out the accommodation and the luggage transfers and for providing us with a framed certificate and thanks to my great companions in the Eastleigh Ramblers for their company and for putting up with me always being at the back taking photos.

 

Keep watching the blog, June's adventure is the Rhinogs and Snowdonia along the Cambrian Way

http://www.cambrianway.org.uk/