Rebekah Woolnough's Fundraising Page
Timothy Woolnough is raising money for Rowcroft Hospice
Participants: June Hunter & Tim Woolnough
Story
Thanks for visiting my fundraising page.
Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Rowcroft Hospice gets your money faster and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.
So please sponsor me now!
I have already started the walk from Minehead to Poole, 630 miles estimated at 45 days. I have set myself a target of £10 per mile, and hope to complete the walk by the end of September 2012 during weekends and school holidays. I will add a diary as we complete the walks and set dates for the next stage.
Funds raised, collected and pledged: £800+Day 2: We walked through a forest and then down into a valley to a small church, we joked that there was probably a service there every 1/16th Sunday, there was also a refreshment cabin where you could make your own tea or coffee. It was a long trek uphill after that, up a curving road and into fields and sure enough the vicar passed us in a Land Rover followed every farmer and gent from the parish ? it must have been the 1/16th Sunday!
Day 4:Rounding the harbour our navigator took us down the wrong path and even though it was only a few hundred yards it felt like miles.
Day 5: When we walked around our final headland before lunch we had to be careful as the wind was extremely strong and it felt like it was attempting to blow is off of the cliff.
Day 6: We joined the Tarka Trail to Barnstaple, where we got soaked in a heavy downpour before crossing Taw Bridge and heading back in the direction we had just come before calling it a day at Fremington Quay. The day we walked about 15 miles but only 3 as the crow flies, it is really depressing. But if we had walked another 3 miles then we would have been nearly back where we started that day. Even more depressing!
Day 7: We walked around the Northam Burrows by a golf club. The sand being blown around made us feel as if we were Lawrence of Arabia.
Day 8: We woke to heavy rain that continued throughout the day, we were drenched within an hour and the continuing rain added to the cold and worsened my blisters. We reached a small village for lunch, we had hoped for a place to warm up, but there was none, only one bench that we took for ourselves. Here we changed into dry clothes, wrung out of socks and refolded the soggy map.
Day 9: By the end my blisters were so bad that i had to give up. My dad and godmother carried on without me, I will catch up at a later date.
Day 10: Catchup. With 7 hills within 1.5 miles very little actual distance was covered horizontally. I think we travelled further vertically.
Day 11: A short walk, i have not yet caught up here.
We ended at Trebarwith Strand, the dog sweltering in the heat, we decided a dip in the sea was needed.
From Pendeen Watch we walked with my godmother's friend, the industry was very interesting as we walked past many mining areas. Later that same day we walked by a beach near Sennen, where i was embarassed to see a nude sunbather.
Land's Ends, finally. A lovely day. It feels like we are returning home. We passed some stunning beaches. The first was a nudist beach so was difficult to admire due to the nude man lying in the sand. The beach at Porthcothan was like a tropical beach from a film, it was so beautiful.