Polperro to Portwrinkle

Date: 25th May 2019

Distance:  13.33 miles
Time: 5:18'49.2
Ascent: 2411 feet

Total SWCP so far: 415.65 miles

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Martin and Marina's Bit

A sunny and fairly hot day, necessitating much more liquid intake than usual! Luckily we found a great cafe en route at Seaton Beach. The mackerel pate is highly recommended.

Derek and Lesley's Bit

The bluebells have gone but have been replaced by pink & white floral displays along the path.

Some nice shady parts in the woods but quite a lot of road, going down into Looe we spotted a seal poking its head up out of the water.

We met some visitors from Texas (Not Texas DIY) for you oldies but Texas America.

Martin and Marina's Photographs

The nice house we stayed in

Raising awareness and money for the Dystonia Society

Weird white spider in the Foxglove!

In Looe

Looe

Looe

Looe

Derek's Photographs

Polkerris to Polperro

Date: 24th May 2019

Distance:  13.79 miles
Time: 6:43'46.5
Ascent: 2776 feet

Total SWCP so far: 402.32 miles

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Martin and Marina's Bit

And...we're back!

Picking up where we left off the last time we were walking the SWCP, today we walked from Polkerris to Polperro via Fowey where we crossed the Fowey Estuary by ferry.

I took lots of photos of course. But! It turned out that when I dropped my shockproof and waterproof camera from my bike, as I hurtled down an Alpine mountain at 45mph the week before, I pushed the definition of "shockproof" a bit too far and it turned out, the auto focus was no longer working! So what appears below is simply the least bad of a collection of very out of focus photographs. Doubtless, Derek's will be good though :-)

This camera is an ex-camera

Derek and Lesley's Bit

Perfect walking weather we had to take the ferry at Fowey (Pronounced Foy)

A very steep town with very narrow streets no traffic allowed.

Stepping stones & sand a great start to our holiday.

Martin and Marina's Photographs

Derek's Photographs