On this last day of the Coast To Coast, we go from Grosmont through coastal valleys to the headland north of Robin Hood's Bay, then south along the North Sea to the end of the trail in the small seaside town of Robin Hood's Bay
1 GROSMONT TO ROBIN HOOD'S BAY
2 Now we cross the eastern edge of the moors to the North Sea
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9 The Falling Foss ("waterfall") Tea Garden, built as a gamekeeper's cottage in the 1780s
10 In the early 1900s it was opened as a tea garden, abandones in 1960, and reviced in 2008
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19 This 200-year-old hermitage was carved out of a single boulder
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21 The Falling Foss
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41 Our last aftrernoon rest stop
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51 Here we walk through a holiday camp to the bluffs, then south
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55 We end as we began, walking along the sea cliffs, but in dramatically different weather
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65 Checking in for our last night together
66 The trusty luggage van completes its last delivery
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76 This officially ends our journey of 192 trail miles
77 Malcolm gave the cumulative altitude gain as 34,000 ft, which is higher than Everest.
78 My reply was that it was 1,000 ft higher than Mauna Kea, and that like this mountain, the first 18,000 ft of it are much wetter than most hikers experience.
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83 It's touristy here, but UK only
84 Our last drinks as a group
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89 Time to dry our boots before packing them away
90 The view refrom my room at Streonhalh. Tomorrow morning it will be breakfast and departure.
