Bude North Cornwall Camping Trip

Willow Valley Camping Park Bush North Cornwall (nr Bude) - Tent - Outwell Montana 6p with awning. Walking holiday with our 2 Welsh Springer Spaniels, Alfie and & Karl 4 yrs. old.

Quiet site with a small river flowing through it, good facilities though if pouring with dish washing is only partially covered.

Walks from South West Coastal Path

· Bude Canal Walk 5.9 miles starting at Bude Tourist Information Centre

· Dizzard Point 5 miles starting at Millook Beach

· Dunmere to Padstow along The Camel Trail

· Duckpool and Woodford

Bude Canal Walk - park at Bude Tourist Information

This was a great walk, starting off along the Bude canal more or less off lead majority of the way. A gentle stroll along Bude's historic canal, through a peaceful pastoral landscape with a wealth of wildlife, returning via the Coast Path with its tremendous sea views. if the weather's good take a picnic and watch the boats and kayaks on the canal A fine route in spring, when there are ducklings and even cygnets on the canal, the hedges are full of primroses and celandines and warblers sing in the blossom-covered bushes. It is good in autumn too, when pipits and buntings find rich pickings in the stubble of the newly-harvested fields.

Tearooms along the way for toilets or refreshments. Great walk for the dogs and us humans. Canal, then fields, then coastal path and beach Widemouth Bay all dog friendly and back into Bude

Camel Trail - Dunmere to Padstow

Park the car at Padstow and catch the bus to walk back to it along the Camel Trail from Dunmere stopping off in Wadebridge for a cream tea and purchase of tea leaves which are grown in Cornwall. Started at 11:18, Wadebridge by 14:00 and in Padstow by 6. Good flat walk along the old railway line but watch out in busy periods for bikes. Off the lead virtually all the way. The path has old stations along it with information boards telling you where you are and distances.

We went on a late walk once the blue skies were back to NT Sandy mouth beach where the dogs had great fun retrieving, even Karl. The beach as the tide goes out is enormous and a great café by the car park.

Duck pool and Woodford 5.1 miles

Start at Duckpool Beach car park. Moderate walk, some steep coastal, inland paths, tracks through fields and woodlands and streams to cross. Lovely walk mostly off the lead.

As we tracked down from the inland paths to Stanbury Mouth bay we could see the skies deepen with grey clouds. We headed to the beach for lunch and at 2pm the heavens opened, we had our waterproofs on but no trousers so we sheltered under our trusted shower curtain we use to sit on! We could see a water spout out at sea. We should have stayed there longer but as soon as it stopped we restarted our walk back up to the coastal path. Again, the heavens opened and we were saturated! Coastal path quite cliffy so we had the dogs on the extendable leads.

We had one day of rain we stayed in bed! River rose very quickly, campers by it had to move! A rare and most enjoyable lazy day reading. Ventured out locally to some woods in the afternoon then late evening sunset on the fab Sandymouth beach

All in all great holiday as we always do in Cornwall and Devon. Site very quiet which was ideal and had an area for dog exercise in the mornings and evenings though very soggy grass! We enjoyed Bude as a village and the walks were very dog friendly.