Campsite in South Devon with Living Arrows 32/52 (2021)

I have been determined this year, like last year to show up for every week of Living Arrows. I’m pretty late with last weeks update as our home has been at Beryl’s campsite in South Devon for the past 10 nights, followed by a campsite in Mid Devon for 2 nights on our return home.

I’m frantically typing this up before I tackle a mountain of laundry and whilst the tired campers are fast asleep as it’s our first morning back home.

This year we managed to book a campsite in South Devon (again). If you want to read about our camping in Devon then you can find more info here and for Cornwall here! . We have wanted to stay at Beryl’s campsite for a number of years but it was always booked up when we tried. This year we booked back in January on the advice of the owner and it really gave us a focus on some of those longer darker months of lockdown 3!

Beryl’s campsite is a real hidden gem, nestled around lush Devon hills (lush as the rain is plentiful!) and with a glimpse of the sea across the campsite. We camped in the Snug which was a nice pitch but maybe a little too close to the toilets and facilities as quite a few campers had to walk past our tent to get to the facilities.

We loved the relax feel to the site as once you’ve seen the owner on arrival, you’re left alone for your stay. The younger three as you can imagine enjoyed exploring the nooks and crannies of the site and playing in the wooded areas. The site has no playground, so it really was left up to them to make their own fun. They made up their own secret gang which was probably code for having a place to moan about us older, grumpy campers! If we return to the site again, I think we would choose to camp in a more open part of the site so they could make a few friends to play with.

This photo was taken on the wall where we attempted to dry our washing on in-between rain showers! It was also our view (minus the two scamps) that we woke up to every morning from the tent porch. This photo was for a brand called Marvellous Maps. We were gifted a map and we have enjoyed finding new spots to visit. It’s great to see a child friendly map and for the kids to see a hard copy of a map rather than google maps on our phones. Myself and Dougie also enjoyed studying it as well, if not more so, as Dougie loves a good map!

The campsite is in walking distance to the beach at Beesands, although with little legs and lots of places to visit everyday we drove down and parked up next to a lovely little beach cafe. On a drizzly start we had coffee and breakfast baps whilst exploring the beach and rocks. It was lovely and quiet on this stretch of the coastline so we headed further up towards the unspoilt beach of Hallsands and walked part of the South West coastal path. The kids indulged us for a little while and I think we will try to convince them into walking more of this coastal path in years to come!

I hope to return to this part of the coast again and visit Start Point lighthouse. It was too busy when we arrived which put us off, so next time we will have to plan our arrival earlier in the day so we get to have a look around as tis part of the peninsula is so wild and beautiful.

I’m going to sign off here in the hope I get a few more blogging jobs done whilst the campers sleep in. I will be back in a few days with more of an update on what we got up to in Devon this week. I do hope you’re enjoying the holidays so far and I cant believe we’re halfway through the 6 weeks already.

Last weeks Living Arrows can be read here.