Coast & Camplight

Coast & Camplight Family run glamping site just outside Whitby in the beautiful North York Moors National Park.
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Sunshine after the rain.After last nights thunderstorms, rain last week and more rain today the land feels like it's bre...
31/08/2026

Sunshine after the rain.
After last nights thunderstorms, rain last week and more rain today the land feels like it's breathing a sigh of relief. Scorched paths are greening up and the spring is starting to flow again.
I even braved a trip to the ponds today - they've been nothing but a muddy hole all summer and its made me quite sad to be there. There's still no water but I was thrilled to find this perfect splash of purple amongst the reeds - purple loosestrife has established itself despite the drought.
Nature is amazing. Just when you think all is lost it never fails to surprise you.

Here's some random thoughts for you (brace yourselves 😆). Every day the dogs and I go for a walk up onto the moor near t...
26/08/2026

Here's some random thoughts for you (brace yourselves 😆).
Every day the dogs and I go for a walk up onto the moor near the site. At the moment there are brambles everywhere so we all look for a few choice ones and eat a few each on the walk. Goodness this is pleasant I think every day, and the dogs seem pretty happy with it too.
Then I got to thinking well of course this makes my brain happy - this is literally what its designed for - walking about in nature foraging for berries.
Bronze age round houses have been found on this moor, and I got to wonder has this activity changed much since my bronze age counterpart walked along here searching for berries? Not much I would guess.. maybe she had her dog with her too?
Anyway, my point is your tired little brain will love you very much if you give it some stuff its designed for for a while, instead of constant screens. An activity its been used to for for thousands of years.
So why not turn your phone off, and go and hunt for some berries for a bit. Maybe take a dog as apparently its and if mine are anything to go by they really like blackberries.
You could even make a crumble if you don't eat them all.

What's the toilet in the Circus camp look like? Well it's a coconut shy obviously!Lots of fun making this one between us...
22/08/2026

What's the toilet in the Circus camp look like? Well it's a coconut shy obviously!
Lots of fun making this one between us - Ed building and me painting. Pretty pleased with how its turned out!
Sometimes I wonder if my main motivation for this camp is I get to paint lots of stuff gold 😆.
Speaking of which - off to do some more painting..

21/08/2026

It only went and bloody rained!! You can actually feel the land taking a big sigh of relief and drinking it in. Had to find my coat and wellies and everything.
Happy and relieved. It won't fix our water woes overnight but it all helps!

Availability alert!! Still in need of another summer adventure? Due to a cancellation our beautiful Northern Skies camp ...
17/08/2026

Availability alert!!
Still in need of another summer adventure? Due to a cancellation our beautiful Northern Skies camp is now available next week! There are 4 nights free and its our only bit of remaining August availability - so get booked in now!
Northern Skies is an off-grid safari tent which sleeps 4, with proper middle of nowhere vibes yet 3.5 miles from Whitby.
Link to book in the bio! Hope to see you in the fields.

16/08/2026

For anyone following my post from last week when it was so hot the swallow chicks took a dive out of their nest - the great news is they made it!
Today is much cooler and we even had a bit of rain this morning. But these noisy little faces poking out of the nest when I was cleaning Northern Skies have made my day!

Here's a more serious post for a change. This old farm has run on its own spring for hundreds of years. The spring has a...
15/08/2026

Here's a more serious post for a change.
This old farm has run on its own spring for hundreds of years. The spring has always supported the people and animals that live here with plenty of fresh water.
This year we have had to admit defeat for the first time ever and get a water delivery as we've had so little rain the spring has slowed to a trickle.
Its a year since the wildfires took the beautiful moors above the farm in a raging inferno that sadly so many areas are seeing this year, and again everything is tinderbox dry. So sadly we cannot allow fires until we get some rain as the risk of wildfires is very real.
On Friday it was so hot that the tiny swallow chicks that are nesting at Northern Skies who everyone has so delighted in this year took a dive out of the nest. We've had to add cold wet towels to the roof to try and cool the temperature for them.
This is the reality of climate change in our tiny beautiful corner of England. It makes me feel intensely sad and impotent for what we can do.

Amazing what you can achieve with a couple of tins of Ronseal UK & Ireland 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 garden paint, a lot of FrogTape® UK, a ...
11/08/2026

Amazing what you can achieve with a couple of tins of Ronseal UK & Ireland 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 garden paint, a lot of FrogTape® UK, a big bit of plywood, some garden chairs from Facebook marketplace and a lot of patience!
Thanks to my lovely sister Rowena Bellamy
for getting stuck into a bit of painting on the big sign and our lovely friend HM Hodgson for the fab photos!

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Low Rigg Farm, Stainsacre
Whitby
YO224LP

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