Walk
Start/Finish : 54°32.030′N, 0°45.165′W
Total length : 16.5 miles
Time taken : 6 Hrs
Min Elevation : 0ft
Max Elevation : 358ft
Total Ascent : 2938ft
Walk GPX file
Did this walk a few years ago and it is a toughie. Fantastic views along the coast from Runswick Bay to Whitby and back again. The walk is from the top car park in Runswick Bay to the “Whale Bone” in Whitby, which you must touch before having lunch and heading back to Runswick. It takes you along part of the Cleveland Way through Kettleness, along the coast to Sandsend and up by the Whitby Golf club to Whitby.
Took in 3 caches during the walk, there were 2 in Runswick, but we were knackered after the walk and will do those another day. Also several more in Whitby, but today was about the walk and not hunting for caches.
First cache of the day was about 5 miles in just before Sandsend. THE SANDSEND TRAIL (NTH YORKS) was a nice find, shame I took the had route by going over the top of a hill instead of using the path round which I discovered after the cache find. Took a Travel Bug – Engineer at altitude which needs to be placed in a high cache next time.
Then it was over to Whitby for the Whale Bone, lunch and then Captain Cook. We went over put our bags down and pretended to look for something in the bag. Took from under the nose of a dog, its owner and 2 people chatting in the bench near it. Brilliant cache location.
Next up was Bram Stokers Whitby Cache this was a virtual cache where we had to take a photo of the bench. Bram Stoker’s memorial seat – placed there to commemorate the spot from which he used to let Whitby’s views inspire him to write the classic Dracula!
Then the a “not found” Whitby Pavilion Was only placed a couple of days ago, but we just couldn’t find it. Time to go back the way we came.
Finally remembered to sow these this morning after forgetting to take the seeds to the plot for the last 3 weeks!!
1 Row – Turnip Purple Top
1 Row – Kale “Nero do Toscana”
Started the Muntons Export Stout from their Connoisseurs Range. Was £11.99 and using 500g of demerara sugar, so total cost is about £13. I am making the 40 pint kit to 32 pints so it has a bit more body and strenth. Cost per pint will be about 40p.
OG = 1048, so therefore ABV should be close to 5.5%
20th May 2009 – Beer bottled into 37 bottles. FG = 1006 – ABV = 5.7% + 0.5% for primer
Final ABV = 6.2%
Muntons Export Stout
Started another 4.5L of Turbo Cider tonight.
See link for method – Turbo Cider Method
I still cannot find any cheap apple juice that isn’t “made from concentrate” so Tesco it was. 4.5L for £1.90 and about £1 for honey.
Using 100% honey this time as it is supposed to give it a fuller less thin taste to it.
so 4.5L apple juice, about 500g of pure runny honey and 1 6g packet of champange yeast.
The OG is 1.078 so looking for at least a 10% ABV brew.
20th May 2009 – Cider bottled FG = 996 so ABV = 11% + 0.5% for primer
Final ABV = 11.5%
Started off at the car park under Roseberry Topping. The walk went through Hutton Moor, Newton Moor, Great Ayton Moor and Kildale Moor. Geocaching
Walk
Start : 54°30.446′N, 1°07.223′W
Total length : 11.2 miles
Time taken : 4 Hrs 23 Mins
Min Elevation : 326ft
Max Elevation : 1103ft
Total Ascent : 1800ft
Along the walk 8 Geocaches were found and it was a 100% successful find rate.
ODIN’S HILL
Hanging Stone
The Troll’s Lunchbox
HIghcliffe Nab
Rose’s Micro
Rose’s View
The Iron Age Village
318 – 3 Moors, 1 Cache, 8 Views
panorama
panorama
Sown into the plot today were
2 Rows Kelvedon Wonder Peas
1 Row Mange Tout – Oregon Sugar Pod
1 Row Leek – Autumn giant 3
1 Row Beetroot – Ruby Queen
Transplanted from Garden to plot
Cauliflower – F1 Candid Dream
Brussel Sprout – Mezzo Nano
Broccoli – “Green sprouting Calabrese”
Finally got round to putting the beans and sweetcorn in.
Chitted the sweetcorn “Sweet Nugget” for 24 hours in 2 layers of damp paper towels, placed inside a sandwich box and put ontop of the boiler. Put these into the paper pots made yesterday and had 42 corn sown.
Also sown today
Climbing French Bean – “Blue Lake”
Runner Bean – Streamline
Runner Bean – White Lady
Pumpkin – Howden
Running out of greenhouse space now…
