Shaugh Bridge

It had been raining nearly every day for over a month.  It was a showery day today, but we wanted to get out for a breath of fresh air.  Last week we had taken my mum to Ivybridge and walked up the River Erme from the viaduct.  The river was spectacular as it rushed over boulders.  Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me so we decided to go to see what another river was looking like.  Today we chose to go to Shaugh Bridge where the rivers Meavy and Plym meet.  The sight did not disappoint us.

Dawlish to Dawlish Warren

It was a sunny January day.  I wanted to go shopping in Newton Abbott, but the weather was too good to spend all day indoors, so we decided to catch the train to Dawlish and have a walk along the South West Coast Path to Dawlish Warren before catching the train back to Newton Abbott for shopping.

There were stones and sand on the path showing the sea had been over the sea wall in the recent storm but today we could walk along in the dry, admiring the calm sea on one side and the trains going along on the other side.  The views were beautiful as we looked down the Jurrassic coast.

The cliffs were red as vegetation has slipped recently.  Men were working on one section and another part looked precarious with water flowing down the cliff.  There were some interesting shapes in the cliff face where earth had been worn away.

Plym Bridge in Winter

There has been a lot of rain recently and so we thought we would see how the River Plym was flowing at Plym Bridge.  We parked on the Estover side of the river and started by looking at the river by the bridge.  Although it was flowing fast, we were surprised that it was not that deep under the bridge.

We started to walk up the river and although the ground was flooded in places the river had not broken its banks.  There was a lot of water flowing into the river from the surrounding ground, making waterfalls.

At times there was white water as the river flowed over boulders, completely submerging them, but it was nothing special until we came until the weir, just past Cann viaduct.  The water flowing over this gave a  spectacular sight.

Being winter there was not much to see in the way of flora or fauna, but we did notice some catkins by the Cann Viaduct - the first signs of spring.