Coastal Trail

03/09/2026

If you haven’t seen already, Guided Wild Swimming has moved to 7.30am, and from this month every session has a theme.

Julia from is taking us through a four week training programme, one skill at a time:

🫁 Breathing and head position
🌀 Hand entry and body rotation
⚡ Power and glide
🦵 Leg kick and sighting

Miss a week and it doesn't matter. Each session stands on its own, so come when you can.

Don't let the change in season stop you swimming. We meet at Coastal Trail, walk down to Bayards Cove for a dip, then head back for a coffee and a chat.

Free to join and all levels are welcome, nervous swimmers especially. Only 8 spaces each week so booking ahead is essential.

🕢 Thursdays, 7.30am
📍 Coastal Trail
🔗 Book at coastaltrail.co.uk

01/09/2026

31/08/2026

Regatta weekend at Coastal Trail:

Coffee > cinnamon buns > brunch > beers > pizza > live music

And it was MAGIC!

30/08/2026

Eat the cup 🤝 Zero waste coffee.

New on the coffee menu: CUPFFEE — a cup you drink out of and then eat. Baked from oat bran and wheat, and it tastes somewhere between a waffle cone and a biscuit.

It does the job of a normal cup, properly. Crisp for a good 40 minutes, and it won't go anywhere for hours after that - so no, it's not going to collapse on you halfway through a flat white.

The good bit: when you're done, there's no cup. Not a compostable one that still has to go somewhere, not a bin liner full of lids. You just eat it, and all that's left is the little paper sleeve.

It started with a guy in Bulgaria called Miroslav, who got sick of looking at the bins outside coffee shops and spent years working out how to bake a cup that could hold a hot drink. Took him until 2018 to get it right.

Add one to any coffee for 50p, basically a sweet treat waiting at the end of it.

Heads up: it's made with wheat and oats, so it's not one for anyone avoiding gluten.

📍 Coastal Trail, Dartmouth

26/08/2026

Brunch by the river. 🍳

Brioche French Toast, a table looking out at the Dart and nowhere else you need to be for the next hour.

Walk in only.

📍 Coastal Trail, Dartmouth

25/08/2026

Regatta week at Coastal Trail - here's the low down ⛵️

🕯️ Open 'til 8pm all week, right through the bank holiday
🎸 Acoustic live music on the terrace
🍕 Wood-fired pizza all week
🧁 Danny's cinnamon buns, baked fresh Thursday–Saturday mornings
🧢 Musto pop-up in the front of café - hats & accessories at a special regatta discount - plus more discounts throughout the shop!

Come off the water, come out of the rain and come for the pizza. We'll be here later than usual.

📍 Coastal Trail

13/08/2026

Meet Juliet 👋 the artist behind our Pottery Workshop.

Get hands-on at the potter’s wheel with Juliet from in this fun, beginner-friendly evening workshop 🤲

You’ll throw your own pot, scratch on your decoration and take it home on the night - no experience needed - and everyone is guaranteed a good pot.

Once dry at home, you can paint and varnish your creation to finish it off.
Perfect as a tea light holder or trinket pot.

Juliet’s also got sound bath, aromatherapy and Inner Peace sessions on the way at Coastal Trail — so keep your eyes peeled for those 🕊️

📅 Wednesday 19th August.
⏰ 6pm-8pm.
🎟️ £40 per person, includes welcome drink.

Book via the link in our bio 🔗

10/08/2026

August line-up at Coastal Trail 🗓️

Yoga Mondays, Pilates Wednesdays, Guided Wild Swimming Thursdays, and live music to close the week - all at the café. Plus a pottery workshop on the 19th and our Regatta Community Day pop-up on the 22nd.

📍 Coastal Trail
Book via the link: https://book.squareup.com/classes/cmsraqde5qwz1t/location/L3RJT6Q5AN82V/classes

07/08/2026

Sea swim season 🌊

Yes, Blackpool Sands is the obvious choice - but there's a reason it's everyone's favourite. Beat the summer crowds with an early start and you'll get birdsong, glass-clear water, and a stillness that's hard to find anywhere else.

Sea swim essentials available from the shop.

06/08/2026

Have you seen our new Crabbing Hut outside the front of the café?

We’ve teamed up with Til The Coast is Clear to make crabbing more sustainable this summer.

Our hut is filled with wooden reels & metal buckets that both work, and are much friendlier to the crabs and the environment!

Once finished, return the bucket to the hut and pop the reel in one of the recycling bins along the front, where Sarah kindly cleans them and returns them back to the hut for the next family.

🦀 Be kind to the crabs:

- Max 3 crabs per bucket, so they have space and plenty of oxygen
- Salt water only in the bucket
- Keep the bucket in the shade so that they don’t overheat
- Max 15 minutes in the bucket, then return them carefully to their home

Enjoy this summer and help us make crabbing more sustainable 💛