We get up and out of the Backpackers for the 9.25 ferry.Two of us are foot passengers cost £60 for them 4are in a car cost£100 for them. There are a couple of dozen foot passengers and at least a dozen staff involved in getting them on the ferry.
We meet for breakfast and the get off the ferry to meet down the road on the French Via Francegiena.Then it’s off along the beach 18km past the little village of Sangat of which you may have heard. The refugees/would be immigrants depending on your politics have been moved on by the gendarmes and the beach is quiet apart from a few people walking dogs and a large pack of French students with hammers. Tackling the geological interest of the hall cliffs of Cap dear grand nez blanc with its flint nodules. Happily low tide is 16.17hrs so we have a huge expanse of sand to walk along instead of having to scale the crumbling cliffs to escape the tide.
It seems a long way as any landmark is seen at least an hour before reaching it.
Lunch is taken on the beach when Tony anounces we are now directly over that other means of crossing the channel The Tunnel.
Last night we visited the White Horse pub in Dover a pub used by many cross channel swimmers and with the walls of the bar covered in their exploits and signatures.
We end up in La Source a pleasant enough long established camp site and a quick shop in the village allows washing and dinner and to be completed before the evening rain shower.
Many sea birds and pill boxes adorn the cliffs and a lone blue hard hat is found on the beach by Tim who adopted it until the end of the day.