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St Ives Holiday Land's End walk Monday 27th June 2022

Jennifer's idea of catching a bus from Porthcurno to Land's End proved very successful. The open top bus took us to our walk start point in about 20 minutes and we didn't waste too much time on a very commercialised Land's End. The man doing photos at the Land's End Signpost suggested we look for holes and gaps in rocks on our journey south. We saw many along our route! The path we took followed the coast southwards, sometimes a little too closely for the nervous! A few seal sightings, many guillemots, gulls and terns, some domesticated animals gave us plenty of entertainment and there was also an adder seen quickly crossing our path. The going was mostly good and the hills and valleys seemed to be a little kinder than the previous day. We eventually dropped down into Porthgwarra where we found a pleasant coffee/ice-cream stop before taking the final hike back to the car park in Porthcurno. The walk was a little under 6 miles, sunny with a reasonably strong westerly wind, but very good conditions overall.

Catching the bus at Porthcurno

Twenty minutes later - Land's End!

That's nice - they've put the flags out for us!

Heading south

 Guillemots resting

 Plenty of rocks on this coast

Choughs first returned to Cornwall in 2001 and there are now several small breeding groups

Good paths most of the way.

Beautiful cliffs and sea colours all morning

That's the rock with a hole

Carefully balanced boulders soon to slip?

Luckily we had a volunteer to keep this rock in place

Nice spot for a drinks break

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and a bit of seal spotting

More holes in rocks

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Adder wouldn't pose at all well

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Just about to go downhill

Porthgwarra, for an ice-cream

St Levan's Well. The water may cure toothache and eye diseases. Cure rate supposedly increases if you stay in the well overnight.

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