06/06/12 - At least the Van is watertight

Distance - 6 Miles
Geocaches - 2
Walk from - Jarrold - Cornwall.

Yesterday
The more astute blog readers will have noticed that there was no walk yesterday.  The weather was simply too bad.  Pre lunch time, even popping the dog out for a wee ended in a right royal soaking.  Things improved in the afternoon enough for a game of football and the evening entertainment was made up by a 2 mile round trip walk to the Barley Sheath pub in Gorran Churchtown.  We could not have been looked after better, with 14 humans and 2 dogs taking advantage of their two courses for a tenner offer.  Excellent Stuff.

The Walk

Dodman\'s Point

In a post pub wind down that involved hallucinogenic stilton cheese and red wine, Sam and Paul agreed to come walking with us and to meet at 6:30am.  I know that the cheese had special properties because I dreamed that I was playing alongside John Terry in the Euros and had to make a goal line cleanance.  I kicked Sonia.  She kicked me back.  We hugged each other listening to the wind and the rain.  Not great.  An hour later than expected it cleared for a glorious day.

However, the campers have had enough.  With gales promised for tomorrow and Friday, they were pakcing up camping vans rather than worrying about walks.

Sonia and myself headed down to Hemmick Beach to take the coast path in the opposite direction to a couple of days ago.  This involved a stiff climb up to Dodman's point - which is like a mini Christ the Redeemer, with its prominent Cross on the headland.

More Man Knee-ery

First cache of the day is up here and worthy of a TB Drop. Thats it - all my TBs from my country tour three weeks ago have now been placed.

Walk continues past the wide arc of Vault Beach.  The headland comes complete with wild ponies.  Paths and views are superb.

Vault Beach - heading east

Vault beach - looking west

Next and final cache is at Pen-a-Maen point - a short clamber off the coast path.  Just in time before two muggles we saw in the pub last night come around the corner. 

Soon, Gorran Haven comes into view.  A perfect Cornish village and worthy of more investigation in the afternoon.

The walk continues inland now, taking in different sorts of paths as we climb to Treveague Farm house and eventually the lanes that took us to the pub last night.

With the weather looking increasingly dismal - this may well be my last walk of the week.