Cornwall on film - Part III

The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Mevagissey & St Just, all on Fuji Superia Reala 100 with my Pentax ME Super.


Cornflowers & cosmos in the kitchen garden at Heligan

The Italian garden

Boats in Mevagissey harbour

Shells on the beach at St Just.

Rockpool

See older blog posts for digital photos and more details.
All my Cornwall photos are together here.

Cornwall on film - Part I

Yes, there are *more* photos!

Niall's idea, experimenting with his wide-angly lens on the journey down.

The pretty field above Polkerris, on our way to Gribbin Head.

The daymarker.

Some camera faff.

Some seakeh.

Wildflowers on the clifftops.

Pretty grass in the cottage garden.

Moored boats in Coverack.

The view at Cadgwith.

A very pretty stretch of coast path.

And a typical bit of the wall/hedge hybrids they have 'round those parts.

St Anthony Head

After St Just we decided to go out to St Anthony Head and have a little look around, then go on to St Mawes.
What we actually did was park at the wrong car park and walk for about three miles along the road and coast. Google map showing the road we walked back along.
At least walking's good for us... And maybe burnt off the ice cream?

Of course the time to look at the map is once you're in the tea garden, having walked a mile and a half ish...

It was pretty though. (no photos of the walk out, too busy walking!)

There's a lighthouse on the end of St Anthony's head. It works but you can holiday in it!

The views are probably akin to this.

Which is the view from this, an observation post built years ago. That and the rest of the battery are looked after by the National Trust.

These days it's somewhat grassy. There's still plenty of heavy shipping going in and out of Falmouth, across the water.

I don't think the telescope is original though...

After having a good look around the end of the headland, we walked back along the road.

And bothered the flowers.
Then we went home and roasted the lump of meat (beef I think) which we'd bought at the butchers in Twywardreath that morning. It was GOOD.

And that's the end of our Cornish adventures. I didn't really cover the first bit, but that just leaves me more photos to post when I'm short of ideas! There're notes in lots of the descriptions on Flickr.

All my Cornwall photos can be found together here, including the film ones.

Mevagissey

Mevagissey is pretty popular to visit & you can see why. It's pretty, with little narrow streets and a nice working harbour full of boats. We went there after Heligan to find somewhere for a sit and a drink. Bizarrely there were no pubs with outdoor seating by the harbour. There was a sort of restaurant with a not-particularly-polite waitress, and a place with a bench but no drinks to be taken outside. We ended up inland by a street, in the bar of a pub populated by middle aged men, with slightly inappropriate-seeming music. Oh well. We got a drink and had a nice walk around after to get our money's worth on the parking!
We walked up the South/West side of the bay/road/hill/cliff(?) to get a view across.


On our way up we helped a lady herd a baby gull off the road and onto a flight of steps so that it wouldn't get run over. It was quite amusing seeing it discover how to deal with steps. For the first couple it fell tipped forward on its beak, but then it learned to use its wings for balance. Didn't get any photos of it though, just this one down by the harbour.



The harbour was full of nice little boats like this. While we were on the harbour wall, near the little lighthouse-type thing above, a couple of slightly larger fishing boats came in, followed by a load of seagulls, and unloaded their catch. (Anna will tut at my use of commas, I know)

Back at the big car park on the edge of Mevagissey there was a hut which was covered in admission stickers from The Lost Gardens of Heligan and The Eden Project, clearly showing we weren't the first to make up a day trip like this.

Beside The Seaside

Housel Bay(map) on The Lizard near the Southernmost Point, is absolutely gorgeous. And I don't use that word lightly (unless I'm being sarcastic!)


From the East side.


The path down to the beach there is quite lovely too.


There are alliums growing wild next to the coast path.


And foxgloves.


It's nice to just sit on the rocks and watch the water.

Late-afternoon at Loe bar

A few bits of Cornwall.
Loe Bar, near Porthleven on The Lizard.


Grasses and blueness.


The view from inside a pill box.


The sea and a suffering fence.


Sunny silhouetted grasses.


Late-afternoon fishing.