28. Leg  - SW Coastal Path 28: St Ives to Godrevy Head

8 August 25 2019

We set off at 5 a.m. and just made it to Gwithian to park and catch the bus to St.Ives! We had walked to Godrevy Point on Leg 5 and, as Julian had pulled a hamstring a couple of weeks earlier, we were glad of a relatively easy walk around the bay.

At Hayle is Britain’s oldest swing bridge. Hayle was once the most important industrial port in Cornwall and a centre of copper mining and smelting.

The Path also follows part of the ancient pilgrim route called St Michael’s Way which led pilgrims across Cornwall from Lelant to Marazion, near Penzance, where they would then travel on to the Cathedral of St James in Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain.

1. The route

2. View to St.Ives from the Bus Station

3. View to Carbis Bay

4. Carrack Gladden view to Porth Kidney Sands

5. Porth Kidney Sands

6. The Towans, Hayle

7. Gwinear and Gwithian beach

8. View to Godrevy Head

9. View to St. Ives across St.Ives Bay

10. Surfers St.Ives Bay