Trinity Harbour

Old Perlican sits in East side at the top of Trinity Bay which is another deep, deep bay that ends in a place named “Come by Chance”. At this point the bays almost intersect with Argentina on the South of NF just a narrow band of land remains holding the mainland together. Trinity Harbour is slightly north of Old Perlican on the West side and comes recommended for its history and location.

Everything is measured relative to a Fowey trip (from Plymouth) and guess what this is a Fowey trip! I think that’s meant to be reassuring as in it’s 4 hours in good conditions. Fairly accurate today I’d say, apart from the temperature if the suns not out and there’s a decent breeze, it’s cold!!

Trinity sits on angular prominently within a bigger inlet there’s a long prominentry with cute lighthouse making an excellent breakwater as we approach.
We tie to a fairly rickety pontoon ignoring the floating dock between us and it altogether. In theory it belongs to the Dock Marine restaurant adjacent but no one appears bothered we are here. I look up and as if by magic we are adjacent to a chocolate shop, which also sells the local ice cream and coffees - not a bad parking choice.
We are going to be here for a couple of nights as it’s forecast pretty windy (30-40s)
As the shops open til 8pm it would be rude not to have ice cream for desert after a stroll through town.

This is quite a tourist spot, we are aware of coaches arriving and people milling about.

Trinity is another older settlement - John Cabot came here in the late 1500’s identifying the harbour as beautifully protected. Some things don’t change!
It appears to have established itself as more of a merchant trading post than purely a fishing port. A lot of settlers were from Poole area establish family businesses, trade fish and furs back with European produce arriving by return. Iron, clothing fabric footwear and foods that aren’t fish! It had established blacksmiths, courtrooms, shops, schools churches and theatres. A lot of the buildings are well preserved and refurbished.
To while away the rough weather day we purchase the heritage trail tickets and access the properties around the town. ( Austen easily side tracked from his proposed paper work day)

Whilst we had intention of giving the local restaurant some business it was rammed at all hours of the day (opening hours are short and coincided with tourist buses emptying into the town). Our timing always appeared bad.

We sat out a couple of nights here, enjoying the views, walks and history.Read more