Pendeen Watch to Lamorna Cove

We started early this morning, setting off in the dark at 7am. Passing some more disused mine workings we continued round to Cape Cornwall. I’d assumed that the spire was a monument, but in keeping with the old industrial theme, it transpires it was a chimney for two steam boiler rooms.

Passing Cape Cornwall, we passed Lands End Youth Hostel (which is nowhere near Lands End), and traversed round the cliffs and along the beach to Sennen. We stopped here  for a mid-morning bacon bap in a local café.

Leaving Sennen for Lands End, we passed a shipwreck which we’d explored when we visited Sennen earlier in the year for Anya’s birthday. 

We reached Lands End, the most westerly point in England. It’s a bit of a weird place though, and as we’d just eaten, we continued on. Crossing over undulating headland until we reached Porthgwarra where we stopped for some lunch.

We continued on to Porthcurno. It’s here that some of the first submarine telegraph cables were terminated in the 1870s. Which meant that this small, remote beach was very important for the UKs international telecommunications. It’s still used to this day as the landing point for 12 fibre optic cables.

For here we carried on until just outside Lamorna. We wanted to push on, and gain some more distance, but also we wanted to make sure to grab a good space to camp when we found one. You always hope when you pass a good spot, that they’ll be a better one later on.