22. Leg 6  - SW Coastal Path 22: Padstow to Porthcothan

9 April 2019

We drove to Porthcothan then took the bus to Padstow so we could complete a decent stretch for our last full day on this trip.

Revisiting familiar routes from holidays with friends including a nostalgic cream tea at the Youth Hostel in Treyarnon.

1. The route

2. View back to Padstow

3. Julian getting his bearings ...

4. Harbour Cove looking out to the Doom Bar

5. Looking back up the Camel estuary from Hawker's Cove

6. Stepper Point, the Daymark (the stone tower that sits on top of the point was built as a navigation aid for sailors entering the port during daylight).

7. Stepper Point looking back up the Camel and out to sea.

8. Stepper Point quarry - don't walk this way in the dark!!

9. Gunver Head view to Trevose Head

10. We have had previous encounters with bulls so weren't relishing the idea of walking through this herd (there were more the other side) but these ones had learnt to ignore humans!

11. Rounhole Point looking back to Stepper Point

12. Trevone Bay

13. Harylyn Bay

14. The lifeboat station at Mother Ivey's Bay

15. Long Cove

16. Trevose Head

17. Gorse near Stinking Cove and the Trevose Head Lighthouse, opened in 1847

18. View across Booby's Bay and Constantine Bay

19. Booby's Bay

20. Treyarnon YHA and across Treyarnon Bay, just as it started to rain! It meant we had to dash inside for a cream tea!

21. Trethias

22. Minnows Islands

23. Porthcothan Bay (known as Nampara in Poldark!)