 The Seven Sisters hike is a 14 mile route along breathtaking chalk cliffs in the South Downs National Park. Join me as I take on this stunning hike along one of the most picturesque coastal paths the UK has to offer. Taking in the wildlife, history and rugged beauty of this classic cliff top walk. Hello and welcome to another video. On this one we're doing the Seven Sisters cliff hike from Seaford to Eastbourne. And it's something that I've had my eye on for quite some time since I did the South Downs way. It splits off into two different directions, one of at top and the other one comes down and round here. And so I missed this whole section off. I was inundated with about three messages of people saying, oh mate you missed out on some quality, quality noggin bollock fodder down there. So I've wanted to do it for a long time so now I'm doing it. It's been a bit of a chew but I've managed to get the train to Seaford and then I'm going to hike along these cliffs, join onto the South Downs way and finish in Eastbourne. Join me if you like, it's only a day hike. I had a camping, despite big bag, I've taken the brain off the top lid off my Osprey Exos 48L. It's like a sheer drop and it's coming away there, isn't it? That gives me EBGB's nut bag that if I go too close to the edge. Let's get away from it. It's only a one-parter, it's just a day hike and I'm not even sure on the mileage. 14, I'm saying maybe? I'm in boiling bag. I was using it as a windbreak because wind was up this morning and it would just keep it wind off me but although it is very waterproof this top, it's more of a running top trail, running pop. No frills, no pockets are out. There's lighters and angels, armpit hair but not very breathable. So I'm starting to boil it back off the D layer. Let's get up to the top of here and see how windy she is. I'm done in already. I've only come up this hill. It takes a while, doesn't it, to get legs under you. You get found out on the first hill. I get used to it but I've not been exercising or anything because I've been so busy helping Fern with her book launch party. She had a launch for a book which is this. Go grab it if you want to get yourself a book about foraging. She put a lot of work into it, it's excellent. It was a book launch party so it was all hands on deck for that which was a great success. Hello to anyone who was there when I met his lads playing golf look. Sound. And I'm dealing with puppies. With dogs. They've all gone now. They've gone off to their mums and they're starting to be homed. For the few people that said oh you should get a rescue dog, I don't agree with having puppies and that. No I didn't either do I. It was just like a chance encounter in a park between the mum and this other dog and you know what, you're not birds and bees. One thing led to another couple of dry white lives. Bosch. Uppeth the Duffeth. And so that's that. We're not in Kansas anymore. We're not in Yorkshire anymore Dorothy. All these beautiful white cliffs. I'm going as far as I can see and beyond. Medic. That's cooked. I'm cooking. Ha. Tis the season. It's soon be time for little shots. I've got my vents open and a t-shirt on now as you can see. Cool story bro. Sound job let's bat on. I don't mind doing all the walk backs because it's just a day hike. I can empty the tank. Leave it all out here. I was thinking well should I get a wild camping but then it doesn't make sense because I can get all the way to Eastbourne in a good day's hike. So I might as well just do that and it's a separate hike. The Seven Sisters is a beautiful hike as you can see and so people might just want to do this hike and see it as just a day hike. Should go up here and have a look mate. Come on. Even like you can run about and stuff. Can't you haunt day hikes? Or am I going to shat it if I look off here? Look at it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it mate because it call it void. The call of the void. Makes my skin crawl it makes me think. I've mentioned it before. The call of the void is when there's a French word for it that and it means call of the void. And it really only happens in men. I think it's said on the internet. But it's that feeling of when you get up to somewhere like that you can't trust your own brain box to not like throw you off ends. That's how I feel. I get on top and there's a little void being what if you jumped then I get so like oh my god. My knees start to quiver. I'm like I'm going to jump off. Can't be trusted. But beautiful beautiful views and lovely walking. I've said it before I love this just on this shortly cut, just short cut grass. Nice and soft underfoot. The sea out to me right. It's perfect mate it's perfect. And some of you won't know because he's not been on for a while but some of you will stand up, your drinks will go everywhere and you'll salute the sky. When I tell you that I've got Joey Dee coming out with me. Yes for we're doing a multi-day hike. It's going to be like two or three days because he's time is tight for Joey Dee these days so getting him for two or three days is a good booking. And we're going to do something a little bit special. I'm not going to spoil it for you now. But it's not that good but I think it's been and it's something that we've talked about for many years that we've wanted to do and we finally planned it all and we're going to get it done. So that'll be the next video. Me and Von Diddle Biscuits. No mate, you alright? Yeah I'm good thanks. What are you up to? Clearing some of the smeg. That's good. Oh shout out this welly. Sorry I'm just making a little film of me hiking there. A big advocate of leaving no trace when I'm out camping and stuff so this is great. What are you, is it council or is it a wildlife trust? Yeah something for a life trust. Do you mind me just filming this little bit? No that's fine. You just come down here and you're down there collecting it off that bit down there. Some of it's stuff that's being collected and left. People do a lot of beach peens but then they don't get collected. Oh they bring it from the beach isn't it? Ah that's good isn't it? Everyone working together in a way. But some of this is just people passing have just dumped their rubbish as well. They've seen that there's a pile. Oh yeah I guess then it creates a bin area doesn't it for people to lose in battle. Do you ever get any good finds that you might keep? Have you got loads of random stuff all over your house like nets and bones and stuff? There's just a lot of stuff, things like poo bags. Oh shit bags yeah dog shit bags. No wrapping it in a non-disposable bag and then leaving it is a bit of a it's a wrong one isn't it? Right Sussex Wildlife Trust good work guys. Keep it up. Yeah cheers mate see ya. There we go. Sussex Wildlife Trust. Cleaning up after you mucky beggars or wherever you are. But I guess it works doesn't it because people do beach cleanups like he said and then just leave it there and then they come and get it. Nearly got to get half a trailer full. Quick three six. I like this I like this trail mate but be prepared for other organ bags to be on it like these guys. It's maybe not one for the remote. Solitude seekers out there. There's a few humans on it. I'm craving a bit of that solitude at moment mate. And a lot of stuff going on. People doubt I need to get away. It's a good word isn't it? It's tick boxes. Sea beat, charred, whatever you want to call it. That's not on the map I can just cut across here and then back up onto cliffs but there's this thing. I've looked at crossing but there's all sorts of warnings saying it's really deep, fast flowing, not having any of it man. Not having any of it so we follow it up here. We're cutting land. Turn right and that is where I'll meet the South Downsway where I let it to go over tops. I'll meet it, we'll come back down and we'll carry on along the coast. A few and far between so we'll give you a look. There's a lot going on. Lovely mechanism. It doesn't catch it. Sorry, sorry. It's not catching. It's just not good enough. Sorry. We're back baby, we're back. What are you saying? I'm already disappointed in this. There's no cover on it. It's just roughly sown. My God. Watermelon. Let's have a look. See if nature will do its thing. Clunk click. Yeah, can't fault it. Right, we're off up here. Round back onto the tops for a lovely sea view up fully. Heffers and a gate. Sensory overload. Yes, on second bite. Right then lads. Is it that way or is it through cows? Quick map check. Sorry lads but it's this way. I would have loved to have hung out with you but... I've seen some use on it. So we'll forgive it if it's a bit crusty. Bit of an urge, we'll forgive it. And this here with the purple flowers on. He's ground ivy. We'll take a bit of this. I don't know if I'll use it. We'll take it a bit further back here where it's away from any chance of any piss. It's good clobber to make a tea with. It's good for your respiratory system. It helps with breathing and that. We'll get some of that and I'll make a brew. We've run this hike all the way to date. Pop it in chest pouch. Alright mate, oh no. Hey Siri, who would win in a fight between me and this horse? You alright? You good? Yes, look. Gives a lift. Right away, good lad. Look at that view. I'm going to have five minutes here with that view. Let's have a seat. Come on. Did you go there? Maybe? Probably fall over there. Ow, spiners. He's a bad boy that I got from werving before I set off. I love that. It's a little trail snack. An almond croissant. Look at what we're saying. Electrolytes mate. It's got to be done. It's got all gooey almondness inside. Best place of ever eating an almond croissant if you're wondering. I'm enjoying this hike and I'm enjoying that it's a day hike. Not having to sleep in bag and tent with me. Not having to think about when it gets dark, where to camp. Just loving it for the day that it is. And I've looked out with the weather. It's supposed to be raining now, but glorious. I'm going to eat me quass on then we'll get going. You are here. Havenbrough, Shortbrough, Ruffbrough, Brass Point, Flagstaff, Flat Hill, Bailey's Hill, Went Hill, Burlingap. You're at the halfway point along the Seven Sisters. Look east towards Beltout Lighthouse. And imagine a scene long ago as customs officers defended this coastline against smugglers. Below you is the site of Crowlink Coast Guard Station. All that remains today are telltale banks and hollows in the grassland. Recent archaeological work shed light on the day-to-day life of the people living here. The excavations unearthed household objects including plates, saucers, beer bottles, pins, pipes and gilt Coast Guard buttons dating from 1820. Up and down that we're dealing with at the moment. But they're nice. They're nice. You get a nice bit of a downhill. And a break from the wind when you're in this little valley. And these cliffs are something else, man. Shock, white, sheer drops and spectacular. And I couldn't have chosen a better day for it. And as that thing said we're about halfway along the Seven Sisters. And you wouldn't have to start where I started in wherever it was I started. I can't remember now because this is not my end. I don't know where anything is, nothing names throughout yet. But you don't have to start where I started. There's a bus stop and a car park and a visitor's centre at the beginning of the Seven Sisters if you just wanted to do the Seven Sisters hike. Let's me down at the lonely lake Before summer has gone away Who this? The Saracen Stone presented by Viscount Gage. I could do with a gauge. A furl was erected by the Society of Sussex Downsmen in appreciation of the generosity of William Charles Campbell Esquire to whose munificent donation to the Seven Sisters Preservation Fund was largely due to the purchase of Crown Link Valley for the use and enjoyment of the nation 1926. You probably just heard me read all that in one but maybe you chopped it in with some stuff like this, look. I'll chop it in with things like this. I'll have chopped it in with little views like that, look. Or maybe even get one at a stone like that. But the reality is it took me far too long to read that. Far too long. I kept messing up. I think I was a bit far away from it plus the fact that hot words get jumbled up in my brain. Not the best. Not the best at reading. Or writing. Or spelling. Or grammar. Or running. Or cartwheels. Or curly pulleys. Or baking. Or dancing. I am actually very, very good at baking and dancing TBH but the rest. Michael Dean was bequeathed or Mitchell Dean was bequeathed to the National Trust by W.A. Robertson in memory of his in memory of his brother's Norman da da da da da Google it. The Seven Sisters Chalk Cliffs have been changing for many thousands of years. The land here was originally joined in France until sea levels rose and the English Channel was formed. Waves, wind, rain and ice continually erode the soft cliffs which keeps their edges sheer and unstable and maintains their brilliant white colour. Feeding the beach with flints washed from the bands found in the cliffs. The cliffs are receding by an average of 70 centimetres a year but in stormy periods the loss may be greater. The Seven Sisters are said to have been named by mariners who looked out for them when returning from sailing on the stormy seas. Always gets me that. It's mad that some humans get to that stage some of us get to that stage where that seems like the best way out and they are going to get too deep and too into it. She's a day hike. We're not three or four days deep into a multi-day hike where we go all in but just won't take a moment and also I'll leave the number for the Samaritans there if anyone sort of needs to chat, don't have anyone to chat to you can give them a ring. Beachy Head was the major operational route outbound from the United Kingdom for the airmen of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command when taking the war to the enemy. They fought in the skies above the enemy and paid the terrible price that war demands. There's Eastbourne. Airborne to Eastbourne. Come in. This is your captain speaking. This bit's glorious man. I've just dropped down off the top and the wind's subsided. It's delightful. And I just had a military helicopter some like Chinooky type thing. Bezpass just on high level. That was a brute. The big metal death parrot strikes again. He's more like a bumblebee than a parrot. Like a big clumsy, brutal bumblebee, brumblebee. No. No brains going. Got about half an hour left in saddle, just shy of two miles. Something like that. And we'll go tap out on the end of the South Downsway. No, I don't feel like I deserve it, but I think it's justified, isn't it? Because I've done the South Downsway, so I've clocked it, I've collected it, I've levelled up. I've gained that monument. That's in bank. So I can come and tap out on it whenever I like. If I'd not done the South Downsway and I'd just done this bit, and then I was like, boom, the South Downsway. No. Get off. That's what you go out and forth. That's what should happen. A little electric shock. But no, I've clocked it, I own it. It's in backpack, it's in trophy room. It's in memory banks. So I'm going to go happy slap it. And that'll be that. But here's Bournemouth look. For the second time in my life. Who'd have known it? Who'd have thunk it? The raffle for my Pioneer 210 ends this Sunday, so in two days I'll leave a link below if you want to get yourself a ticket. There are only three quid. You can get as many as you want and you'll be entered every time you buy one or chances are winning. And 10% of everything goes to Mental Health UK. They also pay for petrol and bits and pieces that go towards the channel and help me make more content for YouTube and Facebook and MySpace and RightMove and look how... Look at this. What the f... What's that? Just in the middle of all this. Beautifully mowed green bit. Look, bits of white. What's that? Someone's going to know this. Looks like, what is it? Rounders. Baseball. You're standing that... What is it? Aliens. Can you see that? On there. So I'm stood in a box. It's not even squared up to it. Whoever's done that's cock-eyed to be like that. If you know what it is let me know. I'm curious to know what that is. And who's brought down a little... What is it? Cricket? Stumbled across a secret cricket pitch. It's boggled me that. It's boggled me. Where was I? I don't even know. It helps me make more content for Friends Reunited and whatever. That's baffled me. That's thrown me. Yeah, so I do appreciate everybody who enters the raffle. Congratulations to the last winner who thankfully was from Yorkshire so I didn't have to travel too far. I managed to get him. I met him in a car park and exchanged blades and axes and saws and beers. That was good. And also congratulations to the winner of the full camping kit that I put together. It wasn't a raffle or anything. It was just a free giveaway. I wanted it to go to someone who would use it. And I dropped that off to Heather on the way down south. And I met her and her partner and she looks like she's going to use it as nature intended which is good. I said, oh, if you're not going to use any of the bits and pieces just pass them on to someone who will get use out of them. But it seemed like they were going to use them and they seemed like a lovely couple. So congratulations to you too. And that's it, mate. That's it. See you later, Madfield. There you go. Part two. Look. South Downsway. Javington, four and a half miles. Winchester 100. That's what I did before. Beachy Ed, one and a quarter miles. And that's what I've just done now. The Seven Sisters. Someone parked in van there looking at me like I'm a lunatic. I didn't think I'd see this again, but it's nice. It is nice to tap out on her again. I've enjoyed it, man. It's been a lovely look. My next adventure is the long-awaited arrival of Sir Joseph von Disco Biscuit. And hopefully that'll be the next video slash videos. So stay tuned for that. Thanks for watching. I love you all. Take care of yourselves and bye for now. I've still got ages to go, mate. To get to the train station then two or three different trains. See you. Thanks for watching.