We left Allonby in more sunshine but with a hazy cool airstream. Cutting inland on quiet lanes we paused to look at the 12th Century Cistercian Abbey at Abbey Town.
As we cycled through fields along the edge of the Solway Estuary we spotted huge numbers of birds. We estimated there were several thousand Pink Footed Geese feeding in the Solway marshes getting ready to migrate. Sometime this month they will fly to their Artic breeding grounds in Svarlbard, and Greenland.
At Angerton we decided not to complete the lobe shaped coastal road but cut straight across to Bowness and caught our first glimpse of Scotland across the Solway Firth.
Our early arrival at the Hope and Anchor in Port Carlisle prompted me to do some bike maintenance since the beer garden tables made an ideal workshop and we are due some colder weather in the next few days.
Our evening walk took us to the start of Hadrian's Wall walk and views out at remnants of canal and railway structures that are now disappearing into the estuary. Port Carlisle once had a canal allowing access all the way down the Solway to Carlisle.
Figures:
Distance:- 34 km
Cycle Time:- 2 hours 25 minutes
Average speed:- 14.1 kph
Total Distance:- 1436 km
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