Shaldon

Today was the annual Shaldon Water Festival. We walked down via The Ness where we had coffee and joined the throngs on the beach.

The place was heaving, the entire village plus tourists, hangers-on and all their children must have been there. The beach was full of stalls including an organic cider bar and a wood fired oven pizza tent. The latter was doing a roaring trade and we joined the queue for lunch of freshly made spicy, red pizza (sun dried tomatoes, red onions, red peppers and chili oil) delicious.

After lunch we took the ferry across the harbour to Teignmouth where we met Colin at the Riviera for a pot of tea while we listened to various blues artists.

The estuary was full of small boats as we took the ferry back to Shaldon. It was the display of the waterborne floats, a flotilla of small boats dressed up, as were their crews, in a variety of ways, from pirates to Bill & Ben! We had to fight our way off the beach as the crowds were packed along the waterfront watching the display. We noticed the pizza tent was still going strong.

As some of you know seagulls are not my favourite bird but, as a special present to Roz, I couldn't resist this picture I took of an artist on Shaldon beach as he worked on his masterpiece. Enjoy :-)