The weather forecast was right and we wake to blue skies and sunshine, though there is a cold wind it’s pleasant enough in sheltered parts. Surprisingly for August we manage to park up next to Newquays most popular surfing beach, Fistral.
After a stroll on the beach we venture into town for lunch and a browse round the shops,
Newquay seems very quiet for the time of year, even some b&b’s are advertising vacancies, late afternoon we leave town and head south of Portreath to Bonnets Cove where there is a large carpark where we park up for the night a safe distance away from a large area of gorse which is smouldering away following a fire.
Here’s the view from our bedroom window.
The next morning and another nice but cool day and we have a wander along the cliff top coast path,
whilst having lunch a fire engine turns up with a crew of five to put out the fire from 24 hours ago.
I guess the surf was up yesterday.
We decide to stop for a second night.
The next morning we awake to a bit of a kerfuffle outside in the car park, a fire engine and 3000 litre water tanker and another team of firemen reeling out hoses to the still smouldering gorse bushes, whilst breakfasting we watch as the fire chief turns up and they proceed to soak the offending ground with three tanker loads of water. Maybe they should have done the job properly the first time round.
We leave and head off for a drive round some narrow roads through St Ives and on to Penzance and park up for the night in the Goonhilly downs nature reserve car park.
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