The coastal course was full of orange-clad walkers who stayed positive despite some heavy showers and blustery wind throughout the walk, which started at 4.30am.
‘It’s been really good, it’s always fabulous,’ said Saffery Trust director Lisa Vizia.
‘Even this morning was great, the queues were going up High Street.
‘We have had a family group and the Mobility Lets Go group too and at Rosaire Court they had their own version of the walk – the walk is for everyone.’
Andy Salisbury from Guernsey Rotary said he was pleased with the turnout.
‘The weather was always going to cause some people not to come but despite it, the turnout has still been really good,’ he said,
‘We have some people doing it as part of a relay and then some people doing the whole thing and we count them individually, so in total we have had well over 1,000 people taking part this year.’
The walk raises money for Rotary and other local charities. Bright Beginnings had been allocated £2,500 from the funds raised at this year’s walk and had a team of seven adults and two children across the charity walking the family route.
‘This will go towards our funding so that the children coming to visit here have the best resources possible,’ said Bright Beginnings CEO Lisa Blondel.
Macey Rushent was among the walkers who took on the full route, which is as close to the edge of the island’s coastline as possible.
She reached Le Gouffre at about 9am on Saturday morning.
‘It’s been all right so far,’ she said.
‘The start was horrible, it didn’t help that it was a bit windy and quite foggy.’
She stopped at the Gouffre for a rest before taking on the rest of the walk.
‘I don’t think we have thought about the rest of the walk yet,’ she said.
‘We are going to put some plasters on and get going again.’
Many of the walkers split the 39-mile course into sections and walked it as part of a relay team.
Mark Owen completed the walk with six friends. He said that the walk was extra challenging with the weather conditions.
‘The rain coming round the lanes towards the Bridge was brutal,’ he said.
This was Mr Owen’s first time doing the walk, and he said he was not put off.
‘I would definitely do it again,’ he said.
Mark Oswald travelled to the island from Devon to complete the walk.
He said it was something that he had been wanting to do and his first time completing the walk had lived up to his expectations.
‘It was really good, a bit wet, but the first bit was brilliant fun,’ said Mr Oswald.
‘The only thing was I kept thinking I was closer [to the finish] than I was and still had a bit of walking to do.’
The walk ended with a sea swim for two of this year’s walkers.
After walking from the start to Portelet as part of a relay team, Chloe Girard and Charlene Bell took a dip in the sea.
‘We did the relay together so we weren’t walking alone and we are about to head on our last leg now before a swim,’ said Ms Girard at the Gouffre on Saturday morning.
‘We are really enjoying it.’
The pair said the hardest thing to deal with was the weather conditions.
‘We hit the cliffs and the heavens opened, we are soaked through,’ said Ms Girard.
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