We reached St. Helens at 12:00 and made our way, by a busy road, to Bembridge. The activity on the harbour helped to distract us from the traffic noise. We think a Mr Noah owned one of the house boats, of which there were many. Some were b&bs.
We followed the path inland, behind Bembridge point, on a nicely wooded path, before returning once again to the beach, with a view south to Bembridge Pier.
We walked down past the pier before turning inland behind the Foreland beach. We passed "The Crab and Lobster" restaurant and then shortly afterwards the coastal path was diverted inland past Sally's riding school. The diversion was via a suburban roadway for which the pavements eventually petered out. Frau Barr chose to walk in the road as the pavement was uneven. The diversion eventually returned to the coast path via a public footpath from where we got a view SW to the Yarborough monument.
We followed the coastal path south west past a very large caravan park and headed uphill to the Yarborough moument from where we got extensive views all around. We then descended towards Sandown stopping on our way to have a nutty snack. As we were eating two spitfires flew by but sadly I was too slow at activating my cellphone camera.
The path down to Sandown is behind high cliffs and sometimes people are tempted yo jump. Hence the sign on the fence we saw, reproduced below.
A view nearer to Sandown.
We decided to walk on through Sandown, initially on the promenade, but at the south end of the town the path climbs onto the cliffs for a lovely high level walk into Shanklin. We saw the interesting bit of topiary shown below in a garden beside this high level path. The last picture is a view back to the chalk cliffs below the Yaborough monument, where we had lunch.
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