Wednesday 23rd July 2025

The weather looked a little iffy again today so we made a last minute decision to tick off another 5.5 miles, completing a gap between Weymouth and where we finished off yesterday, at the Cove House Inn in Portland.

A beautiful and mostly straightforward route – just one section which showed on our OS app as a coastal path but we would definitely not recommend it to fellow walkers. It was the path linking the top of Bincleaves to Castle Cove. It started off OK but became more and more overgrown, also extremely narrow with an unnerving drop to the left. A mile in and we had to make the decision to either turn back or tackle some uncomfortable climbing and slopes. Decided on the latter and literally took a step at a time, me clinging on to Steve, trees, shrubs, anything that came to hand. Definitely not for the faint hearted and I wouldn’t be doing it again.

Absolutely easy walk after that and we rewarded ourselves with a few beers at the end.