27. Leg 7 - SW Coastal Path 27: Portreath to Perranporth

28 May 2019  

For our last walk in leg 6 we parked in Perranporth and took the bus to Portreath. We were particularly looking forward to seeing 'Sally's Bottom' but were also treated to lovely weather, many remnants of the mining industry and spectacular geology. Apparently, we should have looked out for razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes nesting around St Agnes Head!

1. The route

2. Harbour at Portreath and view down the coast. Julian felt a little weak at the knees considering the narrow harbour!

3. Hayle Ulla

4. Out of Portreath

6. Doddering Devil's Guts. We saw a lot of this plant draping over the gorse. It is a parasite and a member of the bindweed family.

7. Sea thrift

8. Approaching Sally's Bottom, Sally's Bottom and leaving Sally's Bottom. This cove caused much hilarity but, of course, turned out to be very beautiful! Apparently ‘bottoms’ is a tin mining term.

9. Cousin Steve was amused to find a shaft on the map near Sally's Bottom ....You can always rely on a Tosh to lower the tone ....

10. Wheal Tye

11. The remains of the dramatic cliff top tin mining buildings of Wheal Coates and Chapel Porth

12. Approaching St Agnes Head

13. Lunch at St. Agnes

14. Looking back at St. Agnes

15. Perranporth airfiled

16. Bright rocks at Crosscombe

17. Cligga Head with mineral stripes in the granite rocks including copper staining in the rocks on the beach below.

18. Hanover Cove: named after the Hanover which was wrecked in a storm in 1763 losing some of its cargo of gold coins. Divers have recovered the ship’s bell, a musket and shot and many iron guns, however much of the treasure is said to be still buried under sand on board the wreck.

19. Approaching Perranporth

 20. End of walk ice-cream.