Nina's Blog - Monday 19th August 2024

Monday 19th August 2024, 21:17

Today's walk was down to Towan Beach where I saw Sax Berlin drawing in the sand and took pictures before setting of toward Pentire. I took pictures of buildings along the way. I had tea and an orange and pecan polenta cake in the Fern Pit cafe above the River Gannel.

While sitting in the cafe I noticed the vinegar bottle, very posh vinegar to put on your chips


After my tea and cake I walked down the winding path to the river and walked across the little bridge to the other side. When the tide is high there is a ferry.

Here's the view from the other side looking back toward the cafe (the rectangular building on the left at the top):

Here's a better view of the bridge, it is presumably underwater at high tide

Once across the river, on the Crantock side, I walked over the sands and up to the footpath to take a more panoramic picture


I walked along the path up river for a few hundred metres until I came to a place where I could get down to river level again. The Gannel is fairly wide in some parts

Further upstream there is another boardwalk. Notice that I am over on the Newquay side again, that's because I just waded the river, it only came half way up to my knees