It’s a sunny day in mid-July, 2024, though the ground is saturated from recent rains. It is also a school holiday week. That translated into huge numbers also visiting the coast but we really did not need to worry about them as we began this journey way back at the Visitors Car Park and not at the honeypot that is the hale-watching platform.

Attached is a pictorial of that walk. What is missing in that pictorial is the pleasure of being out and seeing others also love being out and the dream that in so doing they, too, will fight for its protection.

This is a trip report for a party I led on April 8th 2024. Any writing in blue is a direct quote from the sources as indicated in the footnotes.