{"id":4126,"date":"2018-06-13T21:58:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prikanowski.nl\/swcp\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2018-06-13T21:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:58:27","slug":"20180613-penzance-porthleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devoortsoftware.nl\/swcp\/20180613-penzance-porthleven\/","title":{"rendered":"20180613 Penzance – Porthleven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date: 20180613<\/p>\n

Time:\u00a09:30 – 16:30<\/p>\n

Distance: 26.6 km<\/p>\n

Stay:\u00a0Wellmore End Cottage B&B, Porthleven<\/p>\n

Walk<\/h4>\n

\"\"The first part of today goes via a bike \/ walking path to Marazion. Here is St Michaels Mount, a tidal island with a castle on it. A tidal island is only island when the tide is high, at low tide you can just walk to it. And that’s exactly what I do. I can almost walk into the harbor, from the sea side that is. But unfortunately, there is just a trench of water too much. So via the regular route, a road of boulders.
\nThe island with castle was visible from afar (during my last walk the day before yesterday).<\/p>\n

\"\"After Marazion follows a more regular part of the Coast Path, over narrow paths that are partly overgrown. Today, the vegetation is not too bad. However, the vegetation today is more hostile, nettles as high as I am and stitching stuff that can be felt through my jeans. I seriously wonder how those hikers do it that walk with bare arms and legs when walking these kind of paths. That has to be a painful affair. There were parts today where you can not escape the nettles below the waist…<\/p>\n

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At Cudden Point I say goodbye to the Queen who until then still dominated the landscape behind me, along with St Michaels Mount.<\/p>\n

At Perranuthnoe it is time for a break at the Cabin. A good cup of coffee is welcome, outside on the terrace overlooking the beach and the sea.<\/p>\n

\"\"After the break it goes on to Praa Sands. Here I walk a stretch over the beach. As I approach the end of the beach, I wonder if I can go up somewhere. The cliffs rise from the beach and I do not see an access anywhere. I do see a limited number of people on the beach at the back, which gives hope. And indeed, hidden behind a rock, I find a narrow stone staircase leading to a small bridge where I get back to the Coast Path.<\/p>\n

\"\"Until now it was not all that exciting. After Praa Sands that changes somewhat, it goes up and down more and the path is sometimes very uneven. There follows a large part that goes over the cliffs. Those cliffs are not very high here.<\/p>\n

\"\"There are Hottentot figs (Carpobrotus edulis<\/a>) here, a kind of flower that originally comes from South Africa. I have taken pictures of it before. Today I have seen them less and now I know why. The plant, introduced here more than 100 years ago, is so successful that the existing original vegetation no longer gets a chance. For that reason they have started to remove the Hottentot fig on parts of the coast.
\nI have only seen the purple version so far. There also seems to be a yellow one.<\/p>\n

Weather<\/h4>\n

The weather was good, dry and mostly cloudy. Occasionally the sun came through, but it was not too hot.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t

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