Portreath to St Ives Day 5

We were so happy to set off on our 29km walk today as the forecast was 15c -16c and sunny ☀️.
I decided to walk in shorts and a t-shirt which turned out to be a good idea as the weather stayed nice for most of the day.

There were a couple of steep-sided little valleys to climb out of little Portreath where we stayed but after that we had easy cliff and headland walking to Godrevy Island. There were more grey seals beached in this area and we met Sue and her friend who were official seal surveyors. Their job was to take photos of all the seals 🦭. There were a lot in this particular group. About 25-30 seals but they were very boring as they were all asleep in the shade of the cliffs.
Did you know ?
A group of two or more seals can be called a pod or a bob. Other commonly used collective nouns to refer to groups of seals are harem, herd, and rookery.
After a short stop on the headland overlooking Godrevy Lighthouse, we enjoyed a lovely long hour beach walk at low tide. The beach would be 4-5km long with views across to St Ives which was our destination. There were many people walking their dogs and the beach was again very broad due to an extreme low tide.
Once at the end of the beach there was a deep channel that had no crossing so we had to make an hour and a half detour inland to get walk across a bridge. It wasn’t too bad as we spotted Canadian geese in the estuary below the bridge.
We carry binoculars with us so we pulled them out to have a closer look.
Once around the channel we made our way along cliff tops in to the beautiful St Ives. We walked through a very luxurious part of St Ives. The homes were huge estates with beautiful gardens and we also passed by beautiful resorts with amazing cabins overlooking the beach.
We walked our way down in to narrow cobble streets of St Ives. After we found our BnB overlooking Porthmeor Beach and an old cemetery!
We went out for dinner back at the St Ives harbour where every second place was a restaurant or a bar. The full moon was rising and shining across the little harbour and it looked so beautiful. We found a restaurant and lucky for us we had a fabulous upstairs window view of the full ‘super’ moon over the water.
To our surprise after leaving the restaurant the tide had dropped and all the boats were on their sides high and dry in the harbour. The tides change quickly.
Short walk tomorrow only 14km to Zennor. Czytaj więcej