Falmouth to Portholland
We left the comfort of the Cutty Sark b+b after a quick bacon sandwich. Before today's walk would begin we had to catch two ferries, the first to St Mawes the second to Place. We were 2/3 of the people on the first ferry and the only ones on the second.
Our friend Matt was joining us today, but unfortunately even after a 4.45am start, a broken down train in Truro meant he missed the early ferry but managed to catch us up after a short cut across the headland.
The weather was beautiful today and we passed lots of little beaches where people enjoying the autumn sun and having a swim in the sea.
We pressed on past Portloe to gain a few extra miles, as this was the last water filling opportunity we went to fill up our bottles. However, the sinks were so shallow in the public toilets this wasn't possible. The pub was closed and the only hotel was too posh to hang around in the entrance hall waiting to ask. Luckily Olly managed to ask someone outside their house and we were on our way.
We thought we could probably camp near Portholland as there was only holiday lets on Google maps and it should be pretty quiet. It turned out to be quite a busy place and even after walking out of the village onto the hill a couple followed us. We were wondering if they were going to say something about us wild-camping as we had chatted about it earlier to them but instead they actually just offered to take our photo.
There was however another couple enjoying the sunset with a bottle of wine. After a stalemate of who would leave first, we decided to move to the back of the field, away from the view to not ruin their romantic evening with our pasta cooking.
Matt had forgotten all his food and utensils so we fed him some of our pasta and he whittled a spork out of a twig.
There was a fantastic sunset and the moon is reflecting beautifully on the sea.
Unfortunately I have not seen any new caterpillars for 2 days, so this picture of lady birds and lady bird larvae (which look like tiny dragons) will have to suffice.
