John and Pru, at home in south Devon

A lovely sleep refreshed us and the gorgeous sunshine from the clear blue sky was just what we wanted. Today we were about to start camping so good weather was certainly appropriate. We pottered about after breakfast and enjoyed more coffee here in their pretty garden, with many birds that john avidly encourages circulating around and above us, singing sweetly at times.

We left by late morning to go back to Modbury, where the a woman in the tourist information centre was very helpful and showed me a book of local historical research on gravestones, correlated with early census records. I found my relative's names in the records and also that there a record of a gravestone in the churchyard of my great grandfather's brother Robert, who had died in 1898. so we headed up to the church and with Woodpeckers usual good nose for research we found the headstone as well as others that might be related to our family. I was very pleased and decided to go back and buy a copy of the research notes, which I've subsequently found very useful in linking more members of the family and out history.

By mid afternoon we headed off to the campsite we had booked into at a place called Higher Aunemouth, near Bantham. We put up the tent and had a cup of tea then went down the long narrow lane leading to the beach where the river meets the sea and a series of magnificent sand dunes have resulted producing a great surfing beach opposite to the small town of Bigbury. The sun was shining and we stayed on the beach until late, before we ventured to the nearby pub and then home to rustle up some basic food at the campsite.