Andrew and I had our usual coffee and orange juice for breakfast, then decide to go for a walk. We find Jack chatting to the sheep he's adopted, he has been warned not to go near the "mixy bunnies"  so Eyam is the next best thing. How does an 11 year old know about the plague village in Derbyshire?

We walked in the opposite direction from yesterday and find the church which seems to have been abandoned to the sheep, which are happily eating the grass in the churchyard. We entered the church door, without letting the sheep inside. There are strange pictures in here and someone has made a Crackerjack style game with boxes that you have to feel inside with your eyes shut and identify the object! A weird thing to have in a church, but they don't really use it for services anymore apparently.

We wandered on coming to the "Old Light" lighthouse on the west side of the island, this was not used after completion, as it was built too high up and it's light was usually hidden in the clouds. It is in good condition though and has 2 cottages built on to the side of it which are for rent. People are allowed to go and explore inside so we went in and found a wonderful spiral staircase, we started climbing. Every so often Andrew stopped to take photo's {as you can see} it is fairly steep. There are several holes in the floor where you can see straight through to the bottom, a bit scary! At the top there are windows all around {obviously} and a door that you can climb out of on to the balcony that circles the top, we went out for a look. It was extremely windy but the view was amazing, a little cemetery was below in one of the fields surrounding the church, which we had not seen at ground level. The sea was breathtakingly lovely in the sun, the ponies were in view about halfway across the island again.  Back inside in the centre {a jump across from the edge to middle where the light would have been} there were 2 deck chairs set up. Andrew leapt over and settled in one, I wimped out at that point, and sat by the window instead. 

We wandered on and headed up towards the Castle - which is in occupation, the only way to visit it is to rent it out. Nevertheless we wandered around the outside, it's a formidable building and has lovely views of the sea. We walked back to the Quarters and discovered that Nina, Jenny, Jennifer, Bernie and Tobias had walked to the Lighthouse that we visited yesterday on the other side of the island. Nina dived in for a swim. and was playing with the seals - Cool!! The others thought it too cold so were sitting on the rocks watching her and sunbathing.. Bernie was swept off of his rock by a large wave, and can't swim, so Jenny had dived in to rescue him  Both of them had nasty scraped knees from the jagged rocks, but were otherwise fine. Jenny is the Hero of the day!

We all go to the pub for dinner and beer again, what a lazy life we lead here! I asked Cliff why we haven't seen a single Puffin here, Lundy Island after all means Puffin Island. There is one stuffed and mounted over the pub door - Yuk!! Apparently there are only around 60 breeding pairs of Puffins left - but none seem to be here. Maybe we can settle for a cuddly one from the shop?