bay.
Beyond it, the faint silhouette of the only cliffs in Lancashire, at Heysham, and the bold outline of a nuclear
power station – also at Heysham.
Bay watch: ‘Marvel at the special relationship
between the earth, the moon and Morecambe’
(Simon Calder)The most extreme walking comes close to the end, when you splash through thigh-deep water. A vast
amount of rain bombarded the Lakes a few days earlier, and is now being coaxed by Earth’s gravity into a
torrent.
A number of fellow walkers had four legs, and the dog owners scooped them up to carry them through and
safely out the other side.
Ahead, across salt marsh fretted with gullies: the southern fringe of Cumbria, and specifically the village of
Kents Bank. It has a handy railway station to allow hikers to rattle around the bay and back to Arnside. After
a five-mile walk, that is a tempting option. But another half-hour hike, east towards Grange-over-Sands, lifts
you high above the mighty bay and reveals the scale of your achievement.
Then descend to the promenade of this prim Victorian resort, look out across the bay and marvel at the
special relationship between the earth, the moon and Morecambe.