Bude to Land's End Coastalpath-arooing - Day 3

Polzeath to Treyarnon

For day 3 we decided to have a chill out day and, having crossed the sands at Rock and caught the ferry over to Padstow, we had a nice amble around Padstow Harbour along with a very civilised coffee break sitting in the sun and looking like perfect, albeit slightly scratty, tourists. 

We then set off across the beautiful sands north from Padstow. The weather was warm and sunny and, with the tide far out in the morning, the sea from Padstow looked a gorgeous tropical blue. In fact this was true of most of our route on the day with the fabulous beaches of Harbour Cove, Trevone Bay, Harlyn Bay, Mother Ivy's Bay, Booby's Bay (insert booby joke here) and finally Treyarnon Beach at our final destination all to come. 

All the same. despite it only being getting on for a 14 odd mile yomp for the team that day, we were glad to see Treyarnon when we eventually got there. It had been a warm, sunny and still windy day and we were definitely feeling the burn. Luckily we immediately found a great camp site and, although there was no local pub, the Treyarnon Youth Hostel helpfully advertised evening meals and a bar - hooray! Less helpfully when we went down to the flipping youth hostel at 7:30 it was locked to non-hostellers with a small sign on the window mentioning that they close early on Wednesdays and Thursdays - boo!

So we were starving with no pub, no shops and no much publicised youth hostel cafe bar. We had also run out of Harry food too. I randomly (and slightly desperately) stopped a lady tourist from Brum and asked where the nearest pub was and she gave us directions to a pub "ooh it must be a mile away"....... Well it was at least 3 miles the way she told us to go but only half that coming back and it was also Harry's lucky day - the pub, the Farmer's Arms in St Merryn, had had a carvery that day and they kindly gave Harry a plastic container of carvery scraps, mainly huge chunks of chicken breast! Never-the-less our chill out day of 14 miles of coast pathateering had been supplemented by an additional 4.5 miles of pub getting toing and back froming!!

Heading for Rock and the Padstow Ferry

The Padstow Ferry

The tropic of Padstow

At least my fell shoes aren't looking embarrassingly new

Ship's Mate Hester and the Ship's Dog Harry on Padstow Sands

Harry mistaking a buoy for a ball

Padstow Bay

Proof that I was running some of the time

Looking hot ;)

A much needed swimming break

For me and Haz too

Harry admiring my Round Hole exploring

Dinas Head I think, just north of booby Bay

A health and safety nightmare

Booby Bay

Another view of Booby Bay (have I said booby enough yet?)

Day 4 - Treyarnon to Holywell