Scooter ride to Torquay on 29 March 2009

The clocks had gone forward and i'd gotten up at 6am (what should have been 5am) to watch the Australian GP, so i was feeling a little tired but the morning looked beautiful and it seemed a shame to waste a nice sunny day going back to bed, so off i went down the coast to Torquay to take some photos.

  

 


First stop was at Shaldon to have a cuppa.

The lovely little town on the other side of the river mouth is Teignmouth...



In the far distance just behind the rock point is Exmouth...



About a mile down the coast from Shaldon is a little car park with a nice view...









Further down the coast if one looks close enough they'll pass a little track on the left called Steep Hill, follow it down to Maidencombe...





The Thatched Tavern...



Down to the right of here is a little car park, from the carpark follow the footpath down to the beach...





There's the cafe - it was closed...



There's a lovely little secluded beach...



I'm thinking, "Nice place to go fishing one morning"...







Then it was off to Torquay...



Torquay beach with balloon ride...







Looking across Torbay...



Seafront...



The marina...





A splintery boardwalk. One would have thought with the money in this town that whoever built this would have sanded the planks properly...













A very pretty Pavilion...







Des' Res'...













Another marina...





















And that was Torquay.

On the way home i stopped at Teignmouth and took some photos back at Shaldon.

The car park to the the right of the big house is where i took the first photo on this page of Teignmouth from...



Shaldon...





Teignmouth Beach and Pier...







The Lighthouse...



And that was it for the day.

:-D