09/12/20 - Mousehole to Lamorna Cove

Distance - 5 Miles

Geocaches - 7

Walk Inspiration - Enjoy Cornwall Card 

More coastal walking from Cornwall.

We start in Mousehole - a quaint Cornish fishing village that you wouldn't want to drive through in Summer.

Mousehole

As yesterday, we conquer the inland route first, climbing stiffly past the church to reach Raginnis, Kemyel Drea, Kemyel Crease and Higher Kemyel Farm.  No photos to bring you - it was mainly mud and athleticism at Cornish stiles.

We're quite happy to get away from agricultural land and onto the Coast at Lamorna Cove.  A cafe teases us, all shut up during the out of season.  Not even a bin to dispose of Guide Dog in Training Abi's deposit.

Lonely Lamorna

Navigation is easy on the way back - but the terrain is not.  Plenty of exposure and climbs over slippy rocks, even a waterfall at one point.  We meet other ramblers but its all desperate news. The first lot tell us about the dolphins that they have been spotting but have now disappeared from view.  More worryingly, the second set of ramblers tells us there is a sign outside the Ship Inn banning anyone not from Tier 1 - regardless of their intent to take on a substantial meal.

Kemyel Point and the rugged path

Can the day get any worse?  Of course it can.

We arrive back in Mousehole in a bit of a muddy state - an attempt to clean up Abi on the beach at the harbour is met by two signs - "No Dogs at any Time" and "Warning:  Broken Raw Sewage Pipe".

Mrs M could have been tempted to ignore the first sign but she was not prepared to bathe her in poo.

So, we take her down to a rocky beach outside the harbour wall.  I am instructed to get near the wall, where the retreating tide has created a nice rocky pool to get Abi to have a dunk, once she has finished eating seaweed.  

Disaster strikes - the rocks are slippy and before I know it, it is me that is having the dunk and Abi continues to eat.

I escape - soaked to the bone and inspect the damage.  GPS took the worse of it but phone and camera survived.  

Abi throws up her seaweed lunch.

I am too wet for the Ship or any other establishment and we leave Mousehole, looking for a place to buy rice.

Does our holiday cottage even have an airing cupboard?

It was closed, anyway