Most of our hikes, including the shore walk, were on the Superior Hiking Trail.
On one shore walk just a little south of Naniboujou, the beach changed from fine gravel to round stones to intricate basalt outcroppings.
The annual shore walk was also a reaffirmation, members said, of the idea that environmentalism should not always be a stern-faced business of advocacy and hard science, but also a celebration of the things that are to be protected.
For those who want to view the spawning of the city's moonstruck horseshoe crabs, nocturnal shore walks will be held at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on Sunday, May 26, and Sunday, June 10.
From £10 per adult (£5 per child) for the shore walk to £100pp per day for foraging and surfing, montyhalls.co.uk Earlier this year, Kate Humble launched the first of her new farm courses, how to lay a hedge, on her working farm just outside Monmouth in the Wye Valley, South Wales.
01841 532700, rickstein.com In May 2012 this year, Monty Halls opened Great Escapes in Dartmouth, a shop selling his books, DVDs, T-shirts and also Devon excursions, ranging from an hour-long shore walk to a day's surfing and foraging, and run throughout the year.
At the site volunteers participated in events such as a shore walk led by the Tropical Audubon Society and a BioBlitz in which volunteers used the INaturalist App to help record each species found at the site.
In one break it appeared alongside my current bete noire, the one where a fortyish chap, with a look on his face that I suspect is intended to be misty-eyed romanticism, talks about how instead of doing the weekly shop he would rather be watching the waves break on the shore, or walking with his lovely wife and kids in the park, or be in bed making love to his lovely wife.
Thoroughly wind-tousled, we left the shore and walked a bit inland, where another surprise, this one with a less benign past, awaited us.
When the tide is in, the beach is small and enclosed, but as the tide goes out, it rolls out like a great long carpet, allowing you to make your way along the shore and walk through vast tunnels carved by the sea water into the cliffs.
