GLW2005 : Silverdale Revisited

Saturday 20th June 2020

We didn't know we were going out for a Great Little Walk.  Our objective had been the Troughbarrow Quarry Nature Reserve to see the Wild Orchids.  It was a late start, an eccentric route and an early closing car park plus the possibility that the orchids were no longer in flower that caused us to change our minds and head for the coast.  On the beach at Silverdale, the tide was way out and the sands mostly dry with plenty of families having fun in the sun.

We strolled along almost to Far Arnside where the family caravan stood for 44 years.

After a coffee stop we decided that we should visit the Pepperpot, the Queen Victoria Jubilee Monument on the top of a small, wooded hill overlooking Morecambe Bay and providing, just to the right of the power stations, the weeniest of glimpse of Blackpool Tower some 26 miles away.

Our return to the car was though the village itself.  Every time we visit Silverdale we see areas, fine houses and floral displays that we haven't previously noticed and today was no different. 

We also saw, outside the coronavirusly closed Royal Hotel, a mobile chippy with excited customers forgetting the social distancing rules.

Back down at the end of Shore Road where we had left the car, the scene was now much emptier but still emphasising that you don't have to travel far to find that windy beach, far beyond the twisted reach of crazy sorrow, where you can dance beneath the diamond sky with one arm waving free, sillhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sand with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves.

Don, Saturday 20th June 2020

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