Bude to Land's End Coastalpath-arooing - Day 4

Treyarnon to Holywell

After the short day 3 we needed to play catch up and day 4 leg of the yomp was set to be 20 and a bit miles. Before the off we tried the YHA for breakfast (which they advertised as available from 8 am) but the guy there was so ridiculously and over-the-toply appalled by us bringing Harry into the hostel that, rather than grab a snack there and eat outside, we took our business to the local snack van instead. A big thumbs down then for the Treyarnon youth hostel!

The weather was bright and sunny but there was a humdinger of a chilly breeze blowing. All the same once we got moving it wasn't too bad and Hester even wore her running shorts! Many superb beaches were visited yet again, all of them with crashing surf and with a fair few surfers out and about. The weather got really cold and cloudy by the time we reached Newquay, with one bitterly cold rain shower thrown in, but that didn't seem to stop the surfers on the beaches there at all. They were all wimps though, wearing wet suits ☺.

It brightened up again after that and we managed to catch the Fern Pit Ferry over the River Gannel before he shut up shop for the day - a fantastically tooey little set up it was too. We then crossed the dunes to Crantock Beach, whizzed round a couple of headlands and we reached Holywell... and our weirdest campsite yet, the Holywell Bay Holiday Park; this was massive, seemed full of empty electric camper van/caravan hook ups, had a golf course and attaching theme park, seemed spookily spick and span, was chocker with amenities but nobody else seemed to be there. The local pub though the St Pirans Inn was lovely as was the St Austell Tribute beer

Treyarnon Snack Van

More boring old wild flowers as far as the eye can see and sea views

The yellow flowers, which pretty much grew everywhere on the coast path, are called Horseshoe Vetch (I'm reliably informed)

The huge beach near Bedruthen

Dropping down to the beach

Not a half bad beach then

There's tons of gorse too

Fistral Beach in Newquay

Looking back at Fistral Beach

The ferry crossing

The Ferry Pit

Dunes

Hester took this picture as you might expect

Day 5 - Holywell to Portreath