Day -1 Mousehole to Porthcurno

We awoke to brilliant sunshine and enjoyed breakfast with sparkling sea at the bottom of the garden
 and views of St.Michael's Mount in the distance.
If today's walking is representative of the rest of the South West Coast path, the next few weeks are going to be a lot tougher than I'd imagined.
The track today was often steep and narrow and sections were vertiginous.

The surface underfoot was varied, often muddy, rocky or overgrown. Parts of the path between Mousehole and Lamorna felt more like bouldering
and the changes in altitude were energy sapping making progress much slower that we'd planned.
Though we walked only 9 miles on the Coast path today, the total ascent over the day was over 1650 ft.- more than half of Snowdon!!! 
Without question, the high point of the day was seeing a pod of whales surfacing and blowing spouts just a short distance off the shore. Wonderful!!
After 7 hours of walking, we eventually called it a day at Porthcurno. Happy and knackered!!

Comments

  1. Paul M9 April 2022 at 16:37

    Amazing David. How stunning to see the pod.
    Best of luck to the two of you for tomorrow! Actually today as I write this.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Neil10 April 2022 at 01:03

    Fantastic photos and a great blog. Would love to have seen the whales. An excellent preamble.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 99 - Golspie to Helmsdale - 18.6 miles

Image
Dunrobin Castle came well recommended - particularly the gardens to which you could get in for free. Well, not today you can't.....unless you want a tour of the Castle as well! Pah! Not being in the mood for a guided tour of a stately home even if it was designed by Charles Barry  - who designed the Houses of Parliament, I walked down on to the beach and watched a busy chaffinch and admired a nice gate catch instead! Much more ME!! Near Strathsteven I met Graham and his family.  Graham is a retired businessman and keen amateur geologist. He was looking for ammonites and particularly belemnites which he told me are the fossilised remains of giant squid that once occupied the sea here. They can be found along this stretch of coast where sedimentary seams meet the coast. Wi th his wife Susan, he'd clearly passed on his enthusiasm  to the rest of his family who w...
Read more

Last few days

Image
Only just a few days remaining before heading North(ish) from Lands' End at the weekend. Having Covid over the last week hasn't helped in the final preps but gradually the T line has been getting fainter so I've pressed the ignition switch and I'm warming the engines!!
Read more

Day 109 - Orkney

Image
Helen dropped us off at the Ness of Brodgar - a live archaeological dig of a large site that was discovered only a few years ago. Because of the risk of weather erosion to the dig and the availability of student archaeologists to help with the back-breaking excavation, the site is only open for 7 weeks before it gets covered again until next Summer. There are valuable finds being made almost every day. You could sense the enthusiasm and excitement in the air at the gradual and careful unearthing of crucial finds. We walked via the Stones of Steness  to catch the bus to Kirkwall. The ferry port has connections to some of the other Northern Orcadian islands - Eday, Westray and Sanday from which there are further ferries to others. St.Magnus' cathedral dates from the 1100s.  In the evening we visited the Ring of Brodgar - 5000 years old. The stones on Orkney provoke all ...
Read more