{"id":4337,"date":"2018-06-14T21:57:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prikanowski.nl\/swcp\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2018-06-14T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:57:03","slug":"20180614-porthleven-the-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devoortsoftware.nl\/swcp\/20180614-porthleven-the-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"20180614 Porthleven – The Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date: 20180614<\/p>\n

Time:\u00a09:15 – 17:00<\/p>\n

Distance: 30.5 km<\/p>\n

Stay:\u00a0Hellarcher Farm, The Lizard<\/p>\n

Walk<\/h4>\n

\"\"I am off to good start today, even before I am at Loe Bar, I have a detour. A piece of the cliff edge has collapsed and therefore I can not get through. There is no fixed new route yet, but a temporary one. A diversion of more than 4 kilometers for a stretch of about 100 meters.
\nIn the distance I see that several people just go through and walk a bit higher between the bushes. A sort of alternative path already seems to be taking shape. For a moment I doubt, but then I decide to just follow the diversion. I am here to walk and 4 kilometers extra is nothing.<\/p>\n

\"\"I do not regret it afterwards. The diversion goes inland and is a nice alternate route between meadows, with a piece of forest and the last part goes along Loe Pool. Nothing wrong with that.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

Loe Pool is the largest fresh water lake in Cornwall. It used to be a river mouth (from the Cober), but in the 13th<\/sup> century the sandbank that is now called Loe Bar was formed and thus the river was closed off from the sea. Fresh and salt water separated by a little sand…<\/p>\n

There is a lot of wind today, that is difficult with the hat. I need it, otherwise my hair blows in my eyes. Well, there is always something.<\/p>\n

After the diversion it continues on the regular route. Mainly over the cliffs and with a regular descent and adjecent climb.<\/p>\n

\"\"In Dollar Cove there is a small cafe, no more than a counter in the wall with a few chairs in front of it. But in the shade, so I take a break for a cup of coffee.
\nDollar Cove is so called because in the middle of the 18th<\/sup> century a Spanish treasure ship was shipwrecked here. Since then, everyone still hopes to find silver coins, but no one has ever found anything.<\/p>\n

\"\"After Dollar Cove, Gunwalloe Church Cove follows. It is called that because they have built a church here, the church of the storms, with the associated cemetery. Not the most obvious place. They found out for themselves because a lot of maintenance is needed. The church suffers a lot from the sea (and the storms).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The rest of the route also goes over the cliffs and regularly up and down. I pass a monument to Marconi (the one of the radio waves). From here, he has sent the first wireless message into the world and received it in North America.<\/p>\n

To give an impression, here is a list of names that I came across \/ passed through today:<\/p>\n