We were out earlier today as Fiona needed to be back at the Minack Theatre for the 10:30 performance that we had witnessed the rehearsals of the previous day. She was then going to meet a friend and surgery colleague from Churchill for lunch at a local pub.
Again, the day's walk was quite tough with lots of boulder strewn ups and downs. This time it was DavidA's turn to stumble and fall over on the path. Apart from mucky legs and a "there, there, there" plaster on his hand he was soon back in action. During the week we saw several other similar stumbles, five in total, including one where again we were needed to help an elderly heavy man out of the foliage as his wife, who again omitted to take a photo, just would not have been able to retrieve him. Interestingly, or not, all five were men!!!!
Leaving Porthcurno beach the next stop was to be Lamorna but not before we passed the Tater-du lighthouse built as a result of a Spanish vessel 'Juan Ferrer' going ashore on Boscawen Point in 1965 with the loss of eleven lives.
And also a diversion in the coast path at St Loy where the path disappears on to a boulder strewn beach for about 50yds ..
Finally at Lamorna, our lunch stop, Justine spotted a cafe and managed to get hot chocolate and cream as well as treating the Davids to a large Millionaire slice each.
Leaving Lamorna up an uneven path up to the headland of Carn-du, the coast path enters the nature reserve of Kemyel Crease which was more just like a woodland with no particular features apart from some very boggy bits that were tricky to negotiate without getting too wet.
On leaving Mousehole, which didn't much impress us, there was a series of allotments, some of which had been created as sort of XR protest sites.
Further along the road there is a memorial to the Penlee Lifeboat disaster in 1981 when a newly launched cargo ship 'Union Star' ran aground in hurricane-force winds off Tater-du lighthouse. All eight lifeboat crew were lost as well as the captain of the ship, his wife, his two teenage children and four crew.
Again at the end of the day, on standing up after looking at the memorial, DavidL's knees gave way for a few steps but, having phoned ahead to Fiona, she met us at the same pub in Newlyn where 2 pints of Doom Bar did the trick.
We then walked back to the house and the following day walked the 0.3mls to the Jubilee Pool to complete the walk to Penzance.