Friday, 15th August 2015
Hello
Yesterday we went back to Predannack and across walked to Kynance Cove which has become a favourite circular walk for us. After torrential rain all day on Thursday, it was pretty wet! But despite grey clouds it didn’t rain on us during the walk. Continue reading
Wednesday 3rd May, 2015
Hello all
Well, what a sun shiny and exciting day it’s been.
In fact, I was so excited by an email that I opened when I got back from todays walk and started to upload the photographs – that I totally forgot myself and deleted all the photos from the camera before I’d actually imported them to the computer!!!! Oh no! I hear you scream – that’s not what I said, I can tell you! I was having palpitations! I didn’t know whether I should stop worrying about it and be excited (about my email) or cry – from a mixture of excitement and frustration! I ran in to Mr RR who was having a quiet sit down and shouted OMG guess what I’ve done? And then….before he’d even gathered his wits to ask what was going on …..I had a brainwave. Continue reading
Friday, 15th May 2015
Hello
We went back to Predannack today and walked along the cliffs to Kynance Cove, returning across Lower Predannack Downs. Last month when we did this walk we were enveloped in thick fog. Today, we enjoyed bright sunshine for most of the time and could see for miles out to sea and across the heathland. Continue reading
Monday, 13th April 2015 (Day 1, week 15)
Aiming for 1000 miles in a year
Total so far 290.5 miles (5.3 miles this week)
Hello
It was foggy today, very foggy. A new walk for us, from Predannack which is just along from Mullion Cove on the Lizard, to Kynance and back across the heathland. An excellent walk, taken from a website called iWalkCornwall (http://www.iwalkcornwall.co.uk). Easy to follow instructions – though probably even easier if we could see where we were heading through the mist! Continue reading
Monday 16th February 2015 (Day 1, week 7)
Hello Everyone
Hope you’re all having a good evening whatever you’re up to. Here are the latest ramblings from a great day out with Ms B.
Thanks for reading
Julie
P.S. At the end of the post are some pictures of pen and ink drawings by Mr RR – have a look, they’re lovely!
Target – 1000 miles in one year. Weekly goal – 20 miles
Total achieved so far – 132 miles (target 140)
Achieved this week – 4.1 miles
Kynance Cove circular via Old Lizard Head and Lizard Village (4.1 miles)
Well, what a treat I had today! I was joined on my first walk of the week by my very good friend Ms B, who kindly collected me from home and drove us both to our starting point. It’s good to walk and talk with a friend and today, having discovered that my previously ‘good’ shoulder is now not so good, proving that I am indeed ‘rickety’, a walk and a talk followed by a wholesome lunch – and a little chocolate – was just what I needed.
The earlier downpours had abated and we set off towards the Lizard, in bright sunshine with just a few fluffy clouds overhead. Standing and looking out over the choppy waves we could see Kynance Cove with its dramatic rocky islands to our right.
The heathland behind us is a conservation site and is managed by several organizations including the National Trust, Natural England and Cornwall Wildlife Trust. It has many national and international designations, which help protect it, as it is host to a range of rare plant and invertebrate species.
As we walk along the cliff path we hear the raucous sound of a pair of rooks having a lively conversation perched atop a drystone wall. They are enormous, these birds, with deadly looking bills – as we watch they seem to have reached agreement about which direction to take, and fly off towards Kynance Cove.
Walking on we scramble down over the hill and up the other side before passing through the electric fence enclosing the grazing ponies. Here every year, this herd of pretty Shetlands, are brought in to help conserve the heathland; they are gentle and quiet, though I’m not convinced about their proximity, being as I am, wary of large four-legged creatures. Ms B, however, does not worry about such things and approaches slowly for a chat:
Ahead of us, silhouetted against the skyline is Old Lizard Head, with his nose pointing to the sky as if checking the weather.
And indeed, as we walk towards him, the rain starts to fall, although it doesn’t last long.
We go down over the hill towards Lizard Point – no choughs to be seen – and I point out that sign, remember the one that made me smile before? The way down to the beach is steep – if you climb down, you may not be able to get your dog back up the ladder!
Back up the other side and from here we can look down on the old lifeboat station, now disused, but stationed here for over 100 years until the mid 1900s when it was moved around the coast to Kilcobben Cove. We carry on past the lighthouse with its spooky foghorns, silent today as the horizon is clear, but I’ve walked underneath these monsters in the fog – and they are loud!
Carrying on along the coast path we scour the bay for seals, but they’ve moved elsewhere today and all we see down on the rocks are gulls. Down over the steep path to Housel Bay, a little inlet, but with the wind now whipping up ferocious waves its not a place to linger – except to watch a wagtail hopping about the rocks between the waves before fleeing the sea to take shelter further along the coast.
Here we decide that it’s lunchtime and head inland, following a tumbling stream uphill to the road, and then walking through Lizard Village in a quest for lunch at my favourite café – sadly it’s not to be! Still closed for a winter break. So we move on across the green to the high path along the hedgerow, giving us views of the whole walk that we’ve completed so far from Kynance Cove to Lizard Village. The wind is getting up now and its bitingly cold up on this high wall but a couple of stiles and muddy fields and we’re back at the car and heading off to Mullion Meadows for lunch.
Illustrations may be for sale – please contact the artist if you are interested in finding out more – amajorart@yahoo.co.uk
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