The Lizard to Porthoustock

Date: 18th November 2018

Distance:  14.59 miles
Time: 5:53'22.5
Ascent: 3327 feet

Total SWCP so far: 329.13 miles

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Martin and Marina's Bit

A very windy day. A nice walk. Amazing seas. Nice little horses. Sea foam.

Derek and Lesley's Bit

A lovely sunny day with some beautiful sun & cloud formations you sometimes forget to look up to see the sky as the path can be tricky in places so concentration on placing your feet takes over but just look at the sky in the photos to see.

The path is quiet at this time of year just as we like it soaking up the salt filled air & warm rays of the sun we head along to our finish point passing over a beautiful bridge built it the shape of a ship.

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Poldhu Beach to The Lizard

Date: 17th November 2018

Distance:  9.23 miles
Time: 3:55'57.6
Ascent: 2116 feet

Total SWCP so far: 314.54 miles

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Note: The pause button on my GPS device was accidentally pressed, hence the gap!

Martin and Marina's Bit

A windy day. A nice walk. Amazing seas. A brave (but none too successful surfer). An exciting and dramatic dash across a small bay!

Look how windy it is and how awesome and brave this surfer was!



And watch this dramatic dash!

Derek and Lesley's Bit

Yay we made it to Cornwall for another epic walking holiday, Today its only been 9.23 miles but a point in our history to be celebrated nearly having wet feet due to the somewhat daft idea that running across the beach with the tide slightly too high (See Martins video) we have made it to the Lizard.

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Porthleven to Poldhu Beach

Date: 1st September 2018

Distance:  6.60 miles
Time: 2:18'01.8
Ascent: 771 feet

Total SWCP so far: 305.31 miles

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Martin and Marina's Bit

This was the last day of this SWCP trip. Given we had a 5-6 hour drive home ahead of us, we made this a short, final walk of only 6.60 miles. We ended at Poldhu Beach which is only about 7 miles from The Lizard!

The weather was a tad wet today. Ok, it was very wet. Misty and drizzly to begin with, then plain drizzly. So today's views were somewhat diminished by the poor visibility. We didn't mind though. It was just nice to be out on the coastal path again.

We've made amazing progress this week, turning the corner at Lands End and surpassing the 300 mile mark!

Here's to our next expedition, which is likely to be over New Year.

Derek and Lesley's Bit

So here it is a our last day of this holiday. It's  rainy and drizzly but still very embracing to be out on the southwest coast path.

Martin and myself  set off at a reasonable pace  and get somewhat ahead of the lady's, so we shelter under the trees waiting for the girls to catch up, the girls did not appear and it was some 10 minutes later that we realised that we had taken a wrong turning, looking back we can see the girls walking along the sand Bar where we should have been.

Eventually we catch them up and find that they too had had taken the wrong turning!

Walking together we arrive at our finishing point wet inside & out due to the humidity & the sea mist & rain.

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