07/12/20 - St Michael's Mount and the Dock Inn Penzance

Distance - 6 Miles

Geocaches - 2 and an Adventure Lab Cache

Walk Inspiration - Pubs Walks in South West Cornwall, Walk 9

There can't be many more beautiful places to start a walk than on the beach at Marazion, opposite St Michaels Mount.

Starting the walk at High Tide

Come in the Winter and you can even avoid the £4.50 Car Parking charges.

We pick our way up through Marazion - spying potential post walk watering holes, that we fully expect to be closed on a Monday Lunchtime.

Our access to the coastal path is downhill past the cemetary, where in true Cornish style, the sign telling you the cliffs are eroded, dangerous and closed is at the bottom of the hill.  

Down past the cemetary to pick up the Coast Path

Putting this sign at the access point would have been too obvious

I swear they do this kind of thing on purpose.

Back up the hill and an alternative higher level route through Trenow Farm. Eventually, we pick the coastal path back up at Maen-du Point and continue around to where we leave the sea and head inland at Perranuthnoe.

It has the three things that make Cornish villages great. A pub, a cafe and an art gallery.  Only one of these facilities was open and it wasn't the one that sold its produce in pints.

High Tide at Perranuthnoe

You may be luckier

Two things dominate the views when you head inland and look up - St Michaels Mount and Tin Mines.

Timeless, Other-Wordly

Once an Engine Room, now someones House

Through Goldsithney, which has a couple of pubs - if we had turned right instead of left - and out of the mud along quiet lanes from Tregurtha.  

As expected, the Fire Engine Inn and the Kings Arms were both closed up.  

We take Guide Dog in Training Abi for a last wash up so she can look good for Penzance.  

Tide retreats, causeway revealed

There's an Adventure Lab Cache to keep us entertained - showing the landmarks of  the docks, war memorial, Egyptian House and rather aptly, the oldest pub in Penzance - The Turks Head.

But we are looking for a Good Beer Guide Tick. It's been a couple of months and two are normally available, but on a Monday - only the Dock.

It's good to be back, especially when oxblood Chesterfields are involved. Lively chat from a couple of dockers, who must think that Stella is going to be illegal after a no deal brexit and a nice old boy who took a real shine to Guide Dog Abi. He was not the only one.  The barman is a friend for life, having fed her dog biscuits.

A first Potion Number 9 from Penzance Brewing Company demonstrating why they had made the bible.

 

It's the First Good Beer Guide Tick since October in Oxfordshire

Where's the Biscuits?