Today's route.
Padstow Harbour. Quiet now, but on arrival here on completion of the previous leg during the previous May the 'Obbie Oss' festival was in full swing.
The rain is soon to start.
Low tide and the ferry from Rock has to dock just below (out of sight), some distance from the town centre.
A substantial concrete building on the path, perhaps a wartime 'pill box' or lookout position.
Another wartime relic. This part of the coast was thought to be a potential invasion site.
A substantially built water tank near the path.
View from the inside of the Daymark at Stepper Point (see the next picture), built to act as an aid to navigation in the Camel Estuary area.
Stepper Point Daymark. It is a stone tower, 40 ft high, 240 feet above
sea level, visible from 30 miles away and 177 years old and was part of a series of safeguards to help ships entering the River Camel Estuary avoid the notorious Doom Bar.
Stinking Cove, Cornwall.
Mackerel Cove, looking South.
A passing runner in hi-vis jacket disappears up the hill to the cliff top at Melrope Rocks. In the foreground is a smaller collapsed sea cave hole.
This was formed when the roof of a sea cave collapsed leaving this enormous hole (to get an idea of the scale see the tiny figure on the cliff top above it). At higher states of the tide water flows in from the sea.
One of two seals (species unknown) which played with each other for some minutes just offshore.
Harlyn Bay. Surfers (looking like so many stranded flies) attracted by the rising sea. Surfing seems to involve lots of floating about waiting for the ideal wave to come and then missing it!
A surfer manages to stand in low swell at Harlyn Bay.
A wild seascape, howling wind and pouring horizontal rain at Trevose Head.
Trevose Lighthouse in foul weather.