Horse Cove and Shell Cove - A Dawlish Secret 

What a fantastic journey you have taken us on. Bless you, has hair raising moments, but something you will not see very often. Hope your knee recovered. You didn’t make that by much did you. Brave , thank you for sharing

Hi Neil, always pleased to go for a walk with you. Good company, and you take me places I haven't been to before. (Or sometimes places I have been to, but at sunrise, so still a new experience). But today was even better. We had Celeste along for the walk, a pretty girl in a mini skirt, who was good company, and game to explore. What more could one ask for?

Excellent to watch, especially Celeste who obviously doesn't mind a bit of water or seaweed. You both did very well and let me see a side of Dawlish I never got to see, in my many visits to there and the warren. My first visit to warren was on holiday with mum, dad and little sister. we stopped in a chalet just on land side of the main road. This was 1950's/60.'s and all there really was were lots of sand dunes. I remember we could see the station quite clearly and every train, from Exeter that stopped, virtually emptied there on Saturdays and Sundays. Wonderful days with lots of sun. we hadn't much money but made the best of things. dad was a goods guard at Barrow Hill where the last working round house is, so we didn't have to bother with train fare. We had no camera so nothing to look back at, unfortunately. keep up the excellent work and more power to your elbow for showing bits that others don't. Neil Bush

Fabulous walk, I can't wait till we move back home so we can go on all those wonderful walks. Thank you☺️

Aw great walk you two, always wanted to see round there. Pity you couldn't get to the tunnel. Liked the mini skirt, reminds me of how it was in the sixties! Cheers 😇

Good video Neil, just love the beach walks! i just love the Ocean Neil, anywhere in the world a nice beach walk always nice and interesting to see the diverse scenery along a coastline! i live on the east coast of south africa near the port city of Durban!

Thanks a million Neil. Not done that walk since the late sixties when I found Starfish Seahorses,Mother of Pearl,Crabs. I can smell the seaweed.

Shell Cove beach is a sort of fine shingle composed mainly of crushed shells and is quite different from the rather muddy sand of the adjacent beaches. The only practical way to reach it is by boat and in my childhood 50s/60s my father had a little dinghy powered by a Seagull outboard and Shell Cove was the default location for summer weekends. When the main beaches were so packed with grockles that it was hard to find a square foot to sit down, there were just a handful of people on Shell Cove. The only other way of getting there was the dangerous and illegal walk through the railway tunnel from Coryton Cove. I did this once with some other naughty schoolboys and it was quite scary, although there were little alcoves you could duck into if a train came through, which happily did not occur when I did it.

One can easily see how easy it is to get trapped and needing the help of the RNLI, even if having studied the tide table carefully. If it takes an hour for the tide to recede from a point it only takes 30 minutes to come back in. The ebb slows as it gets close to low water, the same as the flood slows as it approaches high water. More noticeable during spring tides.

I've never seen the tide so low at Dawlish. Many several decades ago now, in quiet a rough see, my Dad had his glasses knocked off in Coryton Cove. He was a bit blind without them and Mum had to give him driving instructions to get us back to the campsite. Next day we went back and enquired at the cafe and someone had found them and handed them in! Very salt scratched and rough, but not broken and so we could carry on with our holiday without fear of death if Mum forgot an instruction to stop at some point. As soon as Celeste said "someone's dropped their glasses" that all came flooding back.

My ancestors were in those areas prior to 1630. It has changed a lot, however, it is possible to imagine them as children walking along those shores, exploring, and learning if that was practiced in those days.

Amazing coves look forward to your next visit with some ladders maybe 🤔

Hi from EVE from KENT, been watching your new see Wall being built and have just found this video, A very interesting walk thank you, I think some money should be spent to stop coastal erosion because once they are lost to the sea there getting it back, once again thank you for the walk.

That was a real eye-opener..thank you.

Great to see these coves. Thankyou. Those anemones are Snakelocks Anemones.

We used to trespass to get there... Not gonna tell anyone how. Fond memories.

Kept thinking, you only have till 1pm Neil !!

Perhaps this should be called "We never quite got to Shell Cove" which is a shame, as Shell Cove is quite idyllic compared to the interesting yet fairly grotty little coved leading up to it.

I believe these tunnels were created in WW2 to allow a beach patrol.