Sore feet!

Today was the day of the barefoot walk (as the title of this post suggests!) and I made it! Jon is staying down in Bournemouth too as of yesterday and he said he'd come with me, although he wasn't so keen to do the barefoot bit! It was lovely to have his company and an arm to lean on occasionally. Here we are at the starting point - the dunes at Sandbanks:

My 'I'm going on a barefoot walk' pose

I tried to update facebook every so often during the day and it was nice to have some encouraging messages to spur us on :-) We saw some interesting sights along the way, here are a few.

Herring gulls

Black-headed gulls and the outline of a cross in the sand

Canford Cliffs - look at the soil profile!

Beautiful patterns made by the sun under Bournemouth Pier

Here we are at Bournemouth Pier:

After lunch, Hengistbury Head seemed to be getting a little closer:

Then we saw some kite surfers and a cliff lift (one of three we passed):

We took some more, increasingly silly, photos of each other:

Can you tell which way the wind's blowing?!

My model pose (or something)

I'm the king of the castle *grin*

Finally we made it to Hengistbury Head, where the hardest part of the walk awaited me - the shingle beach was somewhat painful to walk on at times, hence my slightly less enthusiastic smile here:

There a very welcome and reviving cup of tea greeted us, as well as my parents who had popped up along the way and gone ahead to order the tea!

Post-tea smiles

Post-walk feet

And then I did the original silly pose again, to round off the walk, or something: