Wheal Coates to Trevaunance Cove to St Agnes Beacon

We parked the car at the National Trust car park at Wheal Coates.  We started walking down towards Chapel Porth before picking up the South West Coast Path.  the heather was out, so the countryside was looking beautiful.

Looking down to Chapel Porth

Having walked down to Trevaunance Cove we then walked up to St Agnes and through the village and up to St Agnes Beacon.  The views from the top were lovely. We made our way down in the direction of the car, but there did not seem to be a direct path.  We asked a dog walker and he told us to walk through a field, which was a permitted path even though there was a sign "Bull in the field"  We walked quickly through it to the car park.

Walk around St Antony's Head

From the caravan at Perranporth we drove across to the King Harry Ferry to the Roseland peninsula.

Initially we drove to Portscatho  and wandered around the village, then went on to to the National Trust car park at Porth Farm where we walked down to Towan beach before starting our walk around St Antony Head.  The coast was different to the north coast but just as beautiful.

 At the end of St Antony Head we looked around the battery, then walked down to the lighthouse, before starting round the headland and up the river.

The last part of the walk was through woodland and not as good as the first part of the walk.  It seemed more than a 5 mile work, but that was probably because we were suffering from our 10 mile walk yesterday.

Perranporth to Holywell Beach

We started from the caravan at Perran Sands.  We tried to follow the South West Coast Path but there were lots of paths through the dunes and it was not clear which one we should take.  The one we followed eventually took us down to the beach, and as walking on the dunes had not been easy we decided to continue along the beach to the end.  We then climbed up a marked path the the South West Coast path.  The view back along the beach was lovely.

It was a relatively easy walk along the cliffs to Holywell Beach, with lovely views all the way.  We had hoped for a cafe at Holywell, but there was nowhere special, so we just had an icecream from a van on the beach, before climbing up to the cliff to walk back.  When we came to the path that led down to the beach we chose to go down there rather than try to find the south west coast path.  We walked all the way back to Perranporth along the beach, paddling in the sea.  After stopping for tea and cake in a cafe in the village we walked back to the caravan via the dunes.

In total we had walked 10 miles.

Polzeath to Pentire Glaze

We parked the car at New Polzeath and followed  the South West Coast Path towards Pentire Head.  There were beautiful views  all along this walk and it was not too strenuous, although up and down at times, particularly where the path had to be diverted inland due to cliff falls.  In total we walked about 6 miles.

Polzeath beach as seen from New Polzeath

 The first bay we came to after a short walk was Pentire Glaze Haven and we were surprised what a lovely beach this was that as deserted,

There was gorse growing on the cliff edges making the walk even prettier.

When we approached the Rumps we thought it looked like a dinosour.

Along the way we had seen the occasional bluebell, just coming out, but they were more prolific after we had walked past the Rumps, and the bluebells were out further.

There were clear signs from the coast path to the National Trust car parks and when we reached the sign to Pentire Glaze we followed this path inland back to the car park, then walked down the road until we came to a footpath that took us down to Pentire Glaze Haven.

When we got back to the car we carried on walking down to Polzeath beach.  Having crossed the beach we had a cup of tea a the TubeStation overlooking the beach before heading home.