Cornwall 2022- Padstow to Penzance
From cove to cove to cove
Day one - Padstow to Constantine Bay
Heading out. Walking to the top of the left headland at the entry to the bay.
An old tin mine site.
It's cloudy with intermittent showers. Hey, it's Cornwall.
Don't get too close to the edge.
Day two - Constantine Bay to Morgawn Porth
Time to walk past the beach and up the left headland on a beautiful day.
You might like this grass dune house!
Spring flowers -- pinks and yellows
There are many of these on the way.
A few feet have passed this way before.
This message is for Watson and Daisy, of course ( a huge number of day walkers with their dogs).
This coastline is hard on the eyes.
Day three - Morgawn Porth to Newquay
Um, the weather this morning:
How about light rain and a thirty mile-an-hour wind, sometimes gusting higher, knocking me sideways --fortunately blowing inland, otherwise I might have been blown off an edge three yards away.
My usual pace up the steeper hills.
I highly recommend this place for a trailside coffee and cinnamon bun (near a beach with surfers).
O.K., I won't do the Stone (near Newquay bay and harbor -- sorry, harbour).
Day four - Newquay to St. Agnes
Nice walking weather today -- overcast with mild wind. I walked about 11 miles and got a wee bit of golf in, too.
This small footbridge — the missing section was inserted when the adjacent cafe opened at 9:30 a.m. — allowed me to cross the river at low tide, saving me two miles. At high tide, a small boat takes people across.
Lots of coves with small beaches like this on the way.
A long beach at Perran. It was easier to walk down it to the town of Perranporth rather than in the adjacent dunes.
As I neared the town, members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute that provide lifeguards for all popular beaches rode up and down the beach on small ATVs telling people that the incoming tide would prevent walkers from reaching the town. So we had to divert up to the dunes path.
As I got close to town, I saw this adjacent to the path:
Of course, I just had to get in a couple of holes, teeing off here on the par-five fifteenth next to the trail.
Onward from Perranporth. Oh, geez, do I really have to walk up that ?
Well, no taxi rank nearby.
If you're acrophobic, your heart rate may rise on parts of this section.
To the right:
My feet need a rest in St. Agnes.
Boerewors available at the butcher in town.
Day five – St. Agnes to Portreath
On the trail.
Wheal Coates Tin Mine
Days six and seven – Portreath to Hayle and St. Ives
Here, the Brits have changed the name of "doggy-poo" boxes:
Now quite common: letting churchyard cemeteries go wild.
This lighthouse at Godrevy (Gwithian) is an inspiration for To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, whose family lived in St. Ives.
Starting to St. Ives.
St. Ives (and Carbis) Bays.
Days six, seven, and eight - to Zennor, St. Just, and Sennen Cove
The weather has been lovely. Walking at sixty-ish degrees is really nice -- albeit up and down from cove to cove to cove. Because my knees have been complaining, I skipped the St. Ives to Zennor section that reputedly has very rocky sections which makes these up-and-downs harder.
Zennor village has the requisite pub (with some rooms; I stayed there), church with cemetery, and town hall, in these images, respectively.
I didn't see anything else.
Off from Zennor and the start of a beautiful section.
In many places, small streams flow down coves to the sea. I really like these.
In a few places, ponies are let loose to graze on the hillsides.
Around a corner of the trail.
Pendeen lighthouse.
Lots of tin mines remains around here.
No game on this morning.
Cape Cornwall, where the Bristol Channel and Irish Sea "meet."
Sennen Cove in the distance
The clear waters near Sennen Cove.
Days nine and ten — Sennen Cove to Porthcurno to Penzance
Land's End
At this point, I've reached the Southern Coast and will swing Eastwards.
An evening performance at the Minack Theatre, Porthcurno.
Light rain and mild wind on the last day to Penzance.
The theme for the last days: "Please believe these days..." (zoom this photo)
A medley of scenes.
There's a path across here ?
Yip...
Seaside forest and trails.
John Le Carre had a house near here — Lamorna Cove (This is not it.)
Oh, the last Cafe -- Lamorna Cove.
Adieu
