Distance 14 miles
Ascent
Weather: warm and sunny
We walked along a quiet lane (apart from one big fuel lorry with quite a lot of greenery attached) down to the sea front at Jenny Brown's Point, then across the salt marsh. There were lots of black headed gulls squawking and a man with his emotional support car battery.
We stopped for half an hour and saw redshank, lapwing, shelduck, little egret, Kingfisher, a wader that was possibly a bt godwit, sedge warblers.
Passing a tank on the back of a lorry we left the lane and headed up to Warton Crag on a pleasantly shady track. Then we emerged from the trees out on to the summit path where there was a woodpecker, a dragonfly and a girl with a tape measure.
The top of Warton Crag had terraces of limestone carpeted in flowers.
Back down at sea level, we walked around to the salt marsh, pausing to look at a marsh harrier and saw hello to a horse.
Successfully avoiding quicksand, we made it to Red Bank Farm and its caravan site, walking up to the trig point at 21m.
Approaching town, there were lots of small car parks along the lane, with people out enjoying the seaside by sitting in deck chairs next to their cars and sunbathing next to their cars.
There were also people sitting in deckchairs right in front of a bench and using the bench as a table for their ashtrays. Thankfully bench rage was averted.
A hot sunny walk along the promenade took us into Morecambe, visiting Trafalgar Point at the end of the jetty where we had ice creams, but not vanilla as there seems to be a shortage in Lancashire. We are staying at the Midland Hotel and are making the most of our sea view.
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