We had a walk into Mullion first thing this morning and I took this photo of a road name that I'm sure you would get fed up with spelling if you lived there but how epic is the road name Bownder Laflouder?
No ordinary road names in Cornwall it would seem!
After a bit of lunch we drove the short distance to The Lizard village and parked in the centre for a circular walk through farmland and along a section of the South West Coast Path that we haven't done yet, and as it turned out, we still haven't done it now! We managed to find 7 geocaches successfully but the first one was a right pain. The farmer had greased all over the five bar gate next to the cache, presumably to stop anyone attempting to climb over it - so in my attempt to locate the geocache whilst searching close to the gate I managed to get grease on my fairly new coat, my camera case and even in my hair - to say I was unhappy was an understatement!
Having had a clean up, we found the geocache hidden near the gate post strapped to the back of a lizard - very apt.
We walked across fairly boring fields and then came to a meeting of a few footpaths - what on earth this signpost is supposed to mean is anyone's guess!
Really?
We chose our route according to our GPS, as the signpost meant nothing! We joined the South West Coast Path shortly after this and I have to say things got quite sinister for a while (for me anyway!). The easterly wind was very strong and fierce and things got quite hairy in the wind on a narrow footpath right on the edge of a cliff with a sheer drop down to the sea (funnily enough there are no photos of this bit of coast I was too busy trying to stay upright and alive!) This was not a good place to be on a windy day that's for sure. Just when I had had enough of gale force winds, a sheer drop and heights we didn't really need to come across this sign to add to the mix! (we didn't see any).
The coast close to Cadgwith at the Devil's Frying Pan.
We managed to keep going for a quarter of a mile then found a detour and turned off inland again back through the fields!
There were some special places on the route back cross country, this is where the footpath crossed a little stream - very picturesque and full of birdsong.
We crossed plenty of these stiles today too.
Eventually we ended up back at the coast at Church Cove, a very pretty small village on the coast.
Church Cove.
We saw basking sharks up on the cliffs here last year but with the sea being whipped up by the strong winds it wasn't going to happen again today. We wandered back up to The Lizard village through Church Cove where there were all sorts of flowers in bloom from irises to fuchsias - it must have it's own climate.
We walked just over 7.5 miles today but the main story was the wind!
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