The sunshine continued throughout the day and saw us complete the first stage by arriving at Noss Mayo which, although so close to Plymouth, was somewhere I'd not been before. It is a well kept secret and as we approached it looked more like somewhere in the Caribbean than South Devon as can be seen in the second photo. The last picture, above, is taken on the ferry across to Noss Mayo but we found we'd gone too far and had to return to a third landing point near The Dolphin Inn where we had a very welcome drink just before they closed at four! Not used to pubs closing during the day nowadays.
The bed and breakfast was some 20 minutes further on still but was refreshingly ramshackle with an idiosyncratic landlady. Despite something fearsome about her, she was lovely and offered to take us for a trip to the pub in the evening in her boat as the villages celebrated the end of their regatta with a pub race. The rules boiled down to teams of 6 rowers rowing between three pubs with a pint being drunk in each one. The team with the most pints drunk won the race but to be honest it was just an excuse for a few(?) drinks and ended with boats being capsized and the occupants all soaked through.
The start of the race can be seen in the first photo while photo 3 shows the landlady transporting a local press photographer around after she'd dropped us off. We ended up at The Ship where the food was fantastic. There was quite a long time spent debating what to have as you can see with the four adventurers mulling over their choices.
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