Day: 068
Date: Sunday, 07 August 2022
Start: St Agnes (after bus from Truro)
Finish: Loggans
Daily Kilometres: 28
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos
Total Kilometres: 1901
Weather: Warm, sunny and breezy.
Accommodation: Hotel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Pastries
Lunch: Pastie/Sausage roll
Dinner: Burger & chips (Macca’s), chocolate
Aches: Nothing significant.
Highlight: None really.
Lowlight: None really.
Pictures: Click here
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
The first bus from Truro back to St Agnes, where we stopped hiking on Friday, didn’t leave until 8:50am, so no early start for us today. We ate breakfast, purchased the previous night, at our AirBnB then walked down to catch the bus on a beautiful sunny morning.
The bus was on schedule and we were hiking by 9:30am following a narrow country lane down to Chapel Porth Beach where we rejoined the Coast Path. The sun was shining, the aqua sea calm and holiday-makers were already out swimming, sunbaking and walking. There was little haze and we could see a long way back along the coast, to far distant headlands, just visible on the horizon, that we must have walked over in the past week. It seems both unbelievable and satisfying that we came from there so quickly.
The guidebook had warned that there were a few nasty descents and ascents and Dave soon had his poles out to help with the steep and high steps. Fortunately, the elevation changes weren’t as great as a few days ago, and the climbs not as energy-sapping. We did, however, see some other hikers struggling with both the climbs and the “heat” (~25°C) under the blazing sun.
The views all day were stunning, and we reminded ourselves how lucky we were to be here, enjoying such great scenery. We frequently paused to look over the edge of the precipitous cliffs to isolated little coves below lapped by crystal clear water.
Around noon, we descended to the very busy little port village of Portreath where we bought lunch from a bakery which we ate on a bench overlooking a crowded beach. It’s amazing how a bit of water, some sand, and buckets and spades can amuse children. There was a small stream (of unknown toxicity) flowing down the beach from some kind of drain and scores of children were happily playing in it.
From Portreath there was more lovely cliff-top walking to Godrevy Point, with its small seal colony and offshore lighthouse. Then it was back to the hubbub of holiday-makers as we descended through crowded carparks to busy Gwithian Beach on St Ives Bay. For 5 kilometres, we then walked along the hard-sand beach passing clusters of beachgoers at the access points with longer quieter stretches in between. Very pleasant.
Our accommodation was inland a few kilometres, so we eventually climbed over the big coastal dune and made our way through the vast St Ives Holiday Park - acres of prefab cabins/mobile homes full of vacationers - to Loggans, on the outskirts of Hayle, and our hotel which we reached at 5:00pm.
Later Julie went to the nearby Macca’s to buy dinner, and found them struggling with the number of customers on a fine sunny Sunday, and with equipment failures due to the “heat”.
Only two days to go!
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