After being filed away in the cupboard for a few years, we decided in March to grab one of our Treasure Trails packs and stop by Holy Island on the way up to visit my parents. I've done a few of these over the years and documented them here before the giant delete of 2018, though this was to be the first Mr H and I had done together.
So it was a bit of a letdown when we got there and the very first clue is no longer there! We carried on the route and decided we'd just deduce the missing one at the end...until there were another 2 through the route no longer available. We still kept going but no longer tried very hard and rather just enjoyed our walk with Baker and cut short the trail so that we could be back to the car and over the causeway in plenty of time of the tides (As a local I'm not like the tourists with their risking and underestimating the sea!).
As you'll see from the photos the trail didn't have us head toward Lindisfarne Castle at all which was handy because it seems like where most of the other visitors had gone.
We got to see sheep, roe deer, a chaffinch, jackdaws, sparrows, a wren, herring gull, curlew, eider ducks and probably more that I didn't photograph, which was amazing! In the photos, you will see Lindisfarne Priory, St Mary's Church and graveyard, St Cuthberts Island (from afar this time...last time we visited together we almost got stuck as the tide obviously comes in there before the causeway and we had to wade over in water past our knees!) and the accompanying beach alongside the Old Lifeboat House.
Hopefully, we'll pop over to Holy Island again later in the year and try to finish the disjointed Treasure Trail perhaps with the help of my parents.
Until next time...
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