DANIEL and Ellie Honey’s idea for celebrating their third wedding anniversary did not quite work out as planned.

For, instead of a sunny coastal walk followed by a leisurely lunch at a pub, they found themselves trapped at the bottom of 600ft cliffs and having to be rescued by RNLI lifeboat.

The couple, from Plymouth, set out on Friday morning (October 19) to walk the eight miles from Minehead to Porlock Weir, intending to follow the first section of the 632-mile South West Coast Path.

But, a mile into their journey, they took a wrong turn off the route and ended up on a boulder-strewn beach.

“It looked as though there might have been a way up the cliff from where we ended up but we don’t know the area so we decided to stay put on the beach and call the coastguard.

Minehead’s D class lifeboat located the couple at Selworthy Sands, just east of Hurlestone Point. They were taken off the beach and landed back at Minehead a few minutes later.

Volunteer lifeboat helm Phil Sanderson said Daniel and Ellie had done exactly the right thing: “Staying in a safe place and calling for help was the sensible decision.

“They don’t need to feel embarrassed: this is one of the nastiest stretches of coast on our entire patch and we have rescued literally dozens of people from the same spot.”

Full story in today’s Free Press.