Day 4. Combe Martin to Woolacombe

A damp and drizzly start to find our way out of the village and onto the path.

After a few small climbs around Watermouth we soon arrived at a sign saying 'Welcome to Ilfracombe, twinned with Ifs'.
But we were only at Hele Bay and it took more than an hour​ of steep hill climbing and descent to reach Ilfracombe harbour.

Ilfracombe Harbour

I thought it would be worth a detour to the harbour entrance to see Damien Hirst's Verity; a stainless steel and bronze statue of a heavily pregnant woman, over 20 metres high, holding the sword of truth straight up above her head and the scales of justice behind her back whilst standing on a pile of books.

There was a lot of opposition 

to the installation because one side of her swollen tummy has the skin peeled away to reveal the foetus within.

The statue is apparently only on loan to the council (from the Combe Martin resident) but I think they will be keen to keep it like their version of the statue of liberty guarding the harbour.

Just out of town we climbed up onto the Torrs then a drop down to picturesque Lee Bay and back up again and along open farmland and cliffs to the light house at Bull Point with Cormorants and seals resting on the rocks below.

At Morte Point we turned ninety degrees to head south leaving the Channel behind us and meeting the Atlantic with its crashing waves, jagged rocks, long sandy beaches and white surf.

The wind was increasing on the exposed cliffs as we neared Woolacombe for a welcome rest after a long day.