Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth

Port Carlisle
Port Carlisle

The western end of Hadrian’s Wall was the start of my ride along the southern shore of the Solway Firth, known as the North Cumbrian Riviera because it is favoured with warmth from the Gulf Stream. I was riding at times closer to the hills of Dumfries and Galloway than the Lakeland fells. These are reclaimed wetlands so some of these roads are flooded at high tide.

Lunchtime was a luscious chocolate cake at Bowness-on-Solway, the parking monitored by posh chickens rather than the otherwise ubiquitous ANPR cameras. And passing the pole farm of the masts of Anthorn radio station, which transmit the MSF atomic reference time signal and other LF and VLF radio signals.
Stop for tea, parking on the cobbled streets of Silloth. Then riding back to Keswick with a brilliant view from Millbeck of snow still on Helvellyn (950 m.)

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth
Double chocolate cake with chcolate ice cream at Bowness-on-Solway

Anthorn Radio Station
Anthorn Radio Station

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth

Silloth
Silloth

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth

Helvellyn
Snow on Helvellyn (950 m.)

Riding the south coast of the Solway Firth