We walked just over six miles today on a circular walk from Lizard point. It is the most southerly point in England so is popular with tourists, but it wasn't too bad today. There are lots of geocaches to be found in this area and we managed to find ten today, having had a few problems finding some and not attempting others (again down the steep cliffs). There were lots of notices about nesting choughs in the area, we kept an eye open but didn't see any.
Looking back towards Lizard Point.
A little stream ran across the footpath in a gully, with ..... more tadpoles in it! These Cornish frogs choose very strange places to leave their frog spawn.
Looking towards Kynance Cove. There was lots of badger evidence along this section of path. We then walked inland, through Lizard village and on to the coast on the other side.
As the valley descended into Church Cove, there were lots of flowers out, I think early, there were arum lilies, irises, osteospermum and lots of other flowers that I didn't know the names of. Whilst here we looked for a geocache that was 'tucked in' I lifted one small rock to find a slow worm asleep curled up along side it, so had to carefully put the rock back without squashing it - we never did find this particular cache. We climbed out of Church Cove and found a cache overlooking the sea by a handy seat, and as I looked out to sea at one stage I spotted a SHARK. There were two, basking sharks, one came in quite close to the cliffs and it's shape looked massive under the water, with it's two fins clearly visible. We spent ages watching it as it moved around the bay, the other one we only saw briefly a couple of times. This was an amazing sight and it absolutely made my day, even if I did end up humming the Jaws theme for the rest of the walk! As we stood watching the sharks we saw five gannets diving into the sea, they are pretty amazing too, talk about all the good things happening at once.
Church Cove
Basking shark.
The Lizard lifeboat station. This must be quite a sight if the boat launches as at the other end of the station is a slipway for the boat to launch from. I had to make do with a photo of how the boat launches on the side of the building at the top.
A photo of a photo!
Finally we passed the Lizard Lighthouse, quite grateful that it wasn't foggy as the foghorns looked alarmingly large.
An epic walk, as I have never seen sharks in the sea before, it was an amazing sight.
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