Polruan to Talland Bay: Colin's back
This blog relates to Tuesday.
Being in the motorhome provides all the comforts of home. Being in a tent for three weeks highlights how we take the simplist things for granted, such as making a cuppa tea when you want it.
We had an earlish start and caught the community bus to Polruan. Polruan is a small fishing village on the opposite side of the estuary to Fowey: a ferry runs between the two. Polruan is a very steep: the walk up the hill out of the village warmed up the muscles!
The book describes this section as: quite difficult, with lots of ascents and descents that prove tiring late in the day. Much like the stage discription for Mevagissy the text highlights lots of steps to climb: 120, 170, 160 etc... and yep, the path was another roller coaster. At times the path was overgrown with fern plants, but also a variety of meadow grasses and flowers - it was very pretty.
Despite being overcast, it was hot and muggy, with little breeze, which meant a lot of sweating!
Before reaching Polperro we stopped for our packed lunch and a cuppa tea made on Colin's newly purchased 'jetboil' (a fantastic carbon stove). It boiled within a minute, its a marvel (See photo).
Polperro is a quaint old Cornish fishing village whose narrow streets and cottages remain untouched by development. The streets are so narrow they are banned to cars, which makes Polperro an ideal place to explore on foot, however we only lingered long enough to take a few photo's and by some coasters.
The path out of Polperro was steep, and made longer my a path diversion in-land (a landslide had swept the original path away). It wasn't long before we walked down the very steep tramaced ascent into the next bay along: Talland Bay, the end of todays path walk for us. Of course we stopped at the cafe for more tea and cake for Colin (one piece of caramel flapjack replaced all of his calories burned).
The route inland (up the valley) to the campsite didn't go quite to plan. It turned out the road we followed, wasn't the road intended: it was a very, very steep unused road. Two miles later we made it back to the campsite, which was lucky as it had started to rain (and didn't stop all night).
Today we met one man and his dog which was an Australian Kelpie. Kelpie's are obviously common in Australia, but not the UK. The Kelpie is the Ozzie equivalent to the border collie: intelligent working dog. It was a beautiful, solid dog, very calm and relaxed: i'm in love. (Mariska, you would love this dog too).
Fitbit records 29,162 steps, 12.79 miles, and 176 flight of stairs.
Official path miles about 8/9.
Comment of the day by a very posh lady leaving a cafe:
'My dogs love cafe society'
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Hi Polperro was one place we loved going it has a lovely beach and places to explore. Hope the weather has cleared up to-day, it is a fine drizzle here but that did not stop dad from going to the allotment. Love Mumxxx
ReplyDeleteHello, I spent a couple of days in Polperro many years ago while doing a coastal drive (not quite the same as walking I may add) , it's just a lovely place and as you say steep to get in and out of even by car! so nice to find places where developers haven't made their mark !! xx Kay
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