Distance 9.5 miles
Ascent 200m
Weather: warm and sunny
We set off under blue skies, the first part of the walk along the Lancaster Canal Northern Reaches, which is not navigable but they are hoping to restore it all the way to Kendal. That won't be too hard here, but there are parts farther north that are basically stone bridges in the middle of fields.
After not long, we turned off the canal and through a (very clean) tunnel under the M6. Then we crossed fields and farmland to the grounds of Leighton Hall, without disturbing the lambs! And then into Leighton Moss RSPB reserve.
We saw osprey, reed bunting, great crested grebe, a heron actually swimming not just standing by the edge of the water. Greylag geese, coots, Moorhen+j, buzzards, reed bunting, marsh harriers m, f+j. Sedge warbler, reed warbler, a tiny little frog, little grebe, ducks which might have been anything, canada goose.
After leaving the reserve, we crossed a very quiet golf course (judging the lads in the buggy) and followed the footpath through the park and into Silverdale. We reached the coast at Cove Well, where we walked on the first day of our Cumbria Coastal Way walk in 2016.
The tide was out so we walked on the sand (mud) and then spent most of the time between the beach and the hotel trying to get it off our shoes. We are staying at the Silverdale Hotel. The fish and chip portions are enormous.
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