Cleveland Way Day 4


Up we go! Most days the forecast has been for a cloudy day with little chance of rain, but our now vast experience of the moors tells us it will rain at some point. The temperature has been so nice, usually in the sixties. 


Looking back to the territory we've covered so far. We've learned that the heather is carefully managed to best support the red grouse population. 

The heather is burned or mowed so that there is plenty of young heather vegetation, which is better for the grouse. 

We often hear the grouse chattering to each other. They sound like droids from Star Wars. 


Hunters wait in these grouse butts, as they are called, while the drivers flush the birds out of the heather from behind them. Then they shoot. Sporting.

We encounter many of these old boundary markers. 

And are delighted by them.

Though much of today was on exposed road surfaces, we did walk on some shaded wooded paths. 

Our final sight on today's walk was a monument to Captain James Cook. He was born near here and is much memorialized in the town we are staying in tonight. Which brings our travel year full circle, since in February we snorkeled off of an obelisk monument marking where he was killed in Hawaii. 

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  1. AnonymousAugust 30, 2024 at 1:06 AM

    Great job keeping up with your blogging. Your path echoes our walk in France, but it looks like there are few, if any, villages between stops. Kevin

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