Bude to Land's End Coastalpath-arooing - Day 6

Cambrose to St Ives

Viewed on the map we didn't seem to have that far to go for this leg of the journey to St Ives but it did include a big inland stretch to circumnavigate the estuary at Hayle. It also included the crossing of the Sahara Hayle Sands (about 4.5 miles end to end) under what turned out to be a very warm sun. In fact the weather was now lovely and the cold winds and gales that had harried us all week had finally gone away. This made for hot and crusty going though!

Cambrose to St Ives

Once we actually reached St Ives we were really knackered and left the little coast path bit that went around St Ives Head until after we'd had a beer and dinner in one of the St Ives pubs. We almost fell asleep into our dinners though with the lovely (but strong) Otter Ale not particularly helping matters. With St Ives being a busy and yet tooeyly trendy little place, we soon called it a night, wandered around the headland and then retired to our campsite, handily right on the coast path just west of St Ives. A 22.5 mile day under the blazing sun.

Cambrose camp site

The sea looking much calmer than we'd been used to

Yellow and blue

The full ship's compliment

Harry cooling off before our trek across the Sahara

Important sea weeding

Sanderlings a-scuttling

Harry without panniers at our lunch stop at Gwithian

Looking back across the desert

After a 3 mile inland trek around Hayle itself we finally arrive just across from where we'd been 3 miles earlier!

St Ives ahoy!

St Ives harbour

View from St Ives Head

Final Day - St Ives to Land's End