Walk pictures - Paignton

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Introduction

We went to Paignton in Devon for another English seaside holiday.

Saturday

Saturday started rainy, but brightened up later on, so we played on the beach as well as wandering around.

Pier (not necessarily as racist as the flag count suggests); delightful English seaside weather.

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Flowers 1: pretty rose graffiti.

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Flowers 2: shadows on shutters of closed shop.

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Sign painted on the sea wall by the beach.

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Puddles on the quayside.

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Storage huts on the quayside.

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Family shadow photo, and a boat in the harbour.

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Sunday

In the morning, Adam and I went for a walk. On the way back, it rained rather a lot.

Island (left) and small sailing boat (right) out to sea.

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A steam train - of which more later.

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Clifftop tree in the rain.

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Monday

On Monday we went to Paignton Zoo! The zoo was fun (and they had a lion who occasionally roared really loudly) but I didn't take photos there. Later we discovered Fairy Cove, a small beach very near our holiday home.

Calm sea and cloud reflections; Paignton to left and Torquay across the bay.

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Rocks in the cliffs, Fairy Cove.

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Tuesday

On Tuesday we took the ferry to Brixham. It sounds very similar to Brixton, but turned out to have a slightly different vibe.

Metal structure by harbour entrance.

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Paignton in the sun, with canoe.

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Boat in Brixham harbour.

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Rare sighting of a left-wing boat, Brixham harbour.

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We walked out to the lighthouse at Berry Head, which is the highest and also shortest lighthouse in Devon.

Shoalstone Seawater Pool. We did not take a dip.

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On top of Berry Head is an old fort which was used at various times, as well as the coastguard station and lighthouse.

Wartime observation post.

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Short lighthouse (light mechanism visible through window); coastguard radio mast behind.

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Looking down over a railing (festooned with Samaritans ads) at the cliff edge and sea below.

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Sailing boat seen from the tip of Berry Head.

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We walked the other side of the headland back to Brixham, because we totally had plenty of time to catch the ferry back.

Entrance to fort.

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Sea and cliffs.

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More sea and more cliffs.

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Rather small palm tree.

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After missing the ferry, we didn’t have too long to wait for a bus back.

Later that evening, I popped out to take a few night photos.

Harbour and town lights; local ne’er-do-wells climbing down to Fairy Cove to smoke weed.

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Wednesday

Paignton has a steam train, and river ferry, to Dartmouth. Unlike most other steam railways which are run by volunteers, this is a commercial operation, but it’s pretty good.

Locomotive by platform heading around to join the front of the train.

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After the steam train to Kingswear (across the river from Dartmouth), you then get a passenger ferry over the river to Dartmouth.

A paddle steamer (we did not go on this one).

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The first thing we saw was Bayard’s Cove fort by the river.

Presumably it once had cannons here.

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Fort window; duck now safe from cannons.

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Inside the fort; ladder and No Climbing sign.

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We left the fort and looked around the rest of Dartmouth.

Telephone cable.

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Looking across the river to Kingswear.

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A converted chapel with ’No photos’ blackboard.

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St Saviour’s Church.

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Buildings near churchyard.

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We were following a puzzle-guidebook around the town, which was quite fun, and also saw the local museum which has a full-size beam engine in. Towards the end of the afternoon, we took the ferry back for our return train.