15/6/2021 - Hayle to St Ives (6.2mls)

The day started with a visit to the art deco Jubilee Pool in Penzance where Fiona and Justine swam whilst the two Davids drank morning coffee and DavidA ate a cream tea - at 10:00 in the morning!

Our walk started at North Quay in Hayle and then continued alongside the Carnsew Pool but we didn't see the sign for where the path "goes off the main road between houses" so we ended up walking part way Carnsew Pool before realising our mistake.

After a longish stretch beside the main road we were able to turn off to Lelant along a very attractive lane with some very posh houses running parallel to the railway line. At Lelant church (St Uny) we were expecting to see diversion signs as a result of tidying up from the G7 conference but when we asked a local she said that it had just been on Facebook that the SWCP had been reopened to Carbis Bay.

A very attractive St Uny Church with DavidA trying to get in and Justine posing in the fork of a tree in the churchyard

It was then a long easy walk alongside the golf course and railway past the deserted beach of Porth Kidney Sands to eventually reach Carbis Bay.

Whilst there was a lot of activity with cranes and vehicles at the Carbis Bay hotel, the security guard at the top of the hill was allowing people to walk down towards the hotel. Unfortunately at the bottom the security barriers were still in place and we were informed that we could not go any further and that if we wanted to get to St Ives we would need to walk back up the hill to the main road. We were not best pleased that the security guard at the top of the hill had not told us that!

At this point Fiona contacted to say that she had been totally unable to park in St Ives and was just down the main road at the other G7 venue Tregenna Castle Hotel where a helpful security guard had shown her how to use Find My Phone to find out where we were and to WhatsApp were she was. In that way we decided to abandon the rest of the walk as David and Fiona had been to Porthminster Beach and St Ives on several previous occasions.