Boscastle

I'll start by saying we went geocaching last Sunday, but frankly it wasn't our most successful day.  


We went up to the north coast of Cornwall to Boscastle, which is about 3 miles from Tintagel. It has a beautiful little harbour which is the only natural break in the coast line for miles along the coast. The village was badly damaged by flooding in August 2004 after flood water surged through the village. It was our first visit since then and it was wonderful to see the village looking better then ever.







We spent some time strolling through the village taking lots of photos- Boscastle is one of those places that if you showed me a photo I would know it was in Cornwall just form the way it looks.






John with Sean:- looking inland from the harbour entrance.












Sean demanded we take his photo here- what a little poser!














The harbour is very picturesque...

Past the breakwater

The waves broke wildly on the inlet cliffs

We walked along a Panoramic Trail which gave us great views of the village...

This is Sean at the search location- examining rocks and rock formations














This sea gull wouldn't move even when we walked right past it.






This is Sean's first log under his own profile name, Pirate Sean.

















We continued walking on the cliffs by the upper village, curious about this amazing building which we later found out is a Coastwatch Lookout but was built by a local merchant called Thomas Avery in the 1820's. Avery was also rumoured to be a wrecker. Wreckers would cause ships to crash onto the rocks using false lights to lure them into danger and would then steal the cargo off the wrecked ship.

John is way more daring than me. I am terrified of heights and feel like the edge is going to pull me over if I get to close. Maybe I am not cut out for coastal walks!!! 

The view was amazing- even from a long way back from the edge.






 




The car park looks a long way down from where we were.

The good points of the day were that we had a lovely walk, burning up a fair few calories and exercising our glutteal muscles as we climbed some long steep hills. 

We also had the most amazing ice-creams- I should have taken a photo but I was to busy savouring it!!! 


So although the geocaching didn't go as well as we'd have liked, we had a good day out.


Until next time
Gillian