Wednesday 25th June, 2015 – 25/52 – St. Peter Port to Icart Point

I met Anne S at the bus stop in St Martin’s and we travelled down together to the bus terminus in St. Peter Port. Conditions today were superb, with the sun shining, little or no wind and dry conditions on the cliff paths. Clive S was waiting for us at the Aquarium and was looking forward to one of his favourite walks on the South Coast.

There is now no sign of any bluebells left in Bluebell Wood and it is hard to visualise the carpet of blue and white which covered the area recently, as we passed on through on our way to Fermain Bay. The view above the Bay is just stunning from the top of the cliff path and with the sun shining brightly on both the sea and the beach, it is hardly surprising that Fermain is such a popular bay with both locals and visitors.

Walking through the wooded areas and on to the Pine Forest was lovely with the shafts of bright sunlight providing a beautiful backdrop for walking along this stretch. Jerbourg Point provided Clive with an opportunity to walk down towards the fog horn station as both Anne and I struggled up the long set of steps towards the car park at the point. Clive soon caught us up as he quickly “burnt up” the steps, which in all honesty were embarrassingly overgrown across the path towards the top.

Anne left us at this point as she was limited with her time today due to a meeting in the early afternoon, but it was great to have her company up to this point. I had pointed out that we had not seen any birds of prey today but almost on cue there was a kestrel hovering on the seaward side as we headed off around the point. Moving on and around to Petit Port, the bay below was great viewing on this bright, sunny day and it really would have been a great day to have had a walk down the 300+ steps to the beach at the bottom.

The walk around to Moulin Huet was very pleasant and on reaching the bay we took the lower steps to climb up out of the bay and up above to the still empty Bon Port Hotel. Saints Bay was also looking good in the afternoon sunshine and we were anxious to see the work that has already been done on recreating a previously overgrown path that will come down off the cliff path and snake down to the Saints Kiosk at the bottom of the bay.

It was lovely finishing off our leg today at Icart Point and reflecting on a great day’s walking.