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maykal Says: The goal of some of the more energetic daytrippers is to reach the northernmost point of Lundy, the North Light. Be warned that this does mean climbing down many steps and climbing back again...and make sure you've left yourselves enough time, as the boat won't wait for...
maykal Says: If you're intent on walking to the end of the island, make sure you leave enough time to walk along the dramatic West coast, particularly the section after Threequarter Wall. One of the most famous attractions is the Devil's Slide, a granite wall much favoured by climbers...
maykal Says: The Marisco Tavern, Lundy's only pub, is the hub of island life. Open from the morning for breakfast, it stays open until the electricity goes off just before midnight, serving coffee and cakes, lunch, evening meals, and lots and lots of drinks! The pub can have a great...
Marisco Tavern: The one and only
grets Says: This lovely atmospheric pub is the only place on the island that serves food. The bar has great flag stone floors and serves its own beer. They keep a supply og board games and encourage you to linger. We enjoyed a couple of jacket potatoes for our lunch, I had baked beans...
MS Oldenburg from Bideford or Ilfracombe
maykal Says: From March until October, the MS Oldenburg carries passengers and supplies to Lundy several times a week. Sometimes she sails from Bideford, but most sailings leave from Ilfracombe...it all depends on tides apparently. Sailing time should only be around two hours, but it...
maykal Says: The island shop is the other hub of Lundy, selling groceries to residents and souvenirs to visitors. Souvenirs to look out for include Lundy stamps and coins, postcards and t-shirts. another popular thing to buy is a "letterboxing" pack...letterboxing is a unique Lundy...
Wildlife: Sheep and other farm animals
maykal Says: As I said above, Lundy is a working farm, so it is not that surprising to find farmyard animals on the island as well as the more exotic wild ones. The most noticeable are easily the sheep, which graze in the field between the village and the Old Light. They're quite tame as...
maykal Says: I ought to confess...I'm no twitcher. Bring me a kittiwake, a seagull, a gannet and a cormorant, and I doubt I'd be able to tell you which was which. I'd like to think I could spot a puffin if I saw one, but unfortunately we were a week too late arriving on Lundy...all the...
maykal Says: Between the village and Old Light, you might spot one of the few Lundy ponies, a special breed first developed in the 1920s. The leaflets give a bit more information about them, but all I can remember is the warning that they are wild animals, so not to get too close. We did...
Rabbits, Ducks, Pygmy Shrews and other wild things
maykal Says: Rabbits are a very common sight all over the island, although apparently numbers have reduced dramatically since an outbreak of mixomotosis, so god knows what it was like before. We had a few living in our garden, appearing at sunrise and sunset mainly. Look out for the...
maykal Says: OK, not wildly exciting as rare species go, but these goats do like to get themselves in photogenic positions. With their brown shaggy fur and long horns, they actually look quite a lot like the soay sheep (we often had conversations along the line of "are those soay sheep?...
maykal Says: If you see the sheep by the Old Light, I'd just like to say that you haven't seen the Soay Sheep...they're further north and a completely different colour! Lundy is a working farm, so it has a herd of ordinary sheep in and around the village, but more about them in a...
maykal Says: Japanese miniature deer...on Lundy? Yep. These Sika deer were introduced in the 1920s by the eccentric owners (other projects included wallabies, but that didn't work out so well), and you can sometimes be lucky enough to come across a few deer grazing in the evening. The...
What Goes On On Lundy Stays On Lundy!!
johngayton Says: Our little community is composed of normal people who just happen to have chosen the relative isolation of the island for whatever purposes we have in mind. We're not "zoological exhibits" and so a little bit of respect for our privacy is appreciated. One of the guys...
maykal Says: One thing that seems to surprise daytrippers is the killer hill from the Landing Bay to the village. Lundy is quite a flat island...but only once you get up to the plateau! The road from the jetty starts off gentle, but it soon begins to climb as it winds up the side if the...
grets Says: Lundy is fames for its colonies of puffins, and the best time to see them is during the breeding season from May to July. Lundy gets its name from the old Norse word lunde which menas puffin.Puffins were the main reason for us going to Lundy Island. Once we'd had our lunch,...
maykal Says: I've called them the secret steps, because they're quite hidden and not really mentioned in any of the leaflets about the island. Anyway, about halfway along the tramway by the North Light, there's a very rough path leading down the cliff face. It looks impossibly steep from...
maykal Says: Up at the North Light, if you've got time to spare, have a look at the tramlines to the right of the lighthouse. It's not really what you'd expect to find at the end of an isolated island, but yes, they are tram tracks...used to transport supplies to the lighthouse keepers....
grets Says: One of the easiest and most enjoyable activities to partake in on Lundy Island is to go walking. Wear a pair of comfortable walking boots with a good grip and ankle support, as the ground is often uneven. Once you have reached the top of the hill, the island is mostly fairly...
grets Says: In the 1930s the Airfield north of the lighthouse was in frequent use. During WWII, trenches were dug across it to stop enamy aircraft landing here. One of the runways is still in use today, but is very uneven and bumpy. You can still see debris from a German Heinkel that...
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Notes From A (Very) Small Island - I was between jobs and doing some scruffy agency stuff in November 2011. One morning I woke up and found an email in my inbox from a jobsite I use to keep in touch with what's what. The "alert" was a...
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Q: Please can you advise me of the closest car park when catching the boat over to Lundy Island. Many thanks
A: Being a non-driver I know where the car parks are and but don't know which are for day use and which are long-term. There are quite a lot of car-parking spaces around...
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A remote and unspoilt piece of paradise
Lundy is a small island some 10 miles off the North Devon Coast, and it has a long and interesting history. We visited on a beautiful sunny summer's day and found the island to be absolutely...
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% WORK IN PROGRESS % Anyone who has read my homepage will know that I am a fan of small remote islands. Places like St Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Pitcairn hold for me a strange fascination. But you...
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The island is inhabited by a very tough breed of people called "Landmarkers". There are only about a dozen people who live permanently on the Island, and that includes the land agent, the shepherd,......
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I have just arrived from a two weeks journey around several islands of the United Kingdom thanks to the cheap tickets sold through internet by the airline company Ryanair (I paid for a round trip...
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This is the lighthouse called the Old Light. You can climb to the top for a fantastic view on a clear day. or for a holiday stay in the two appartments ajoining
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