Today must have been the weirdest weather yet - thick fog! We parked Colin's car at Rame after negotiating the narrow cliff road in thick fog. It was so thick you could not see Tregantle Fort beside the road, it was as if it never existed. We were going to walk to Portwrinkle, but with no sea views today it was decided to go to Cremyll, and walk to Cawsand and Kingsand. At least we would see something of the villages. When we arrived to park at Cremyll we were amazed to see Plymouth Sound and the Breakwater, and even saw yachts starting a race with a loud double boom. It was lovely here, we walked up the side of the Mount Edgecumbe Estate, past beautiful flower beds and old cottages, a large lake and up through the woods and eventually we came out onto the coast path.

Plymouth across the Sound...Drakes Island is in the middle, and The Hoe, in the shape of the old Eddystone Lighthouse, is in line with the boat in the foreground. The picture's a bit dark, but if I'd lightened up the trees, the skyline would have disappeared!

We went by a lovely house called Hooe Pool and found a seat and sat down and had our lunch. The fog had turned into heavy drizzle now, and as we had rounded the point we couldn't see the sea now. Just total white out. It was very weird. On we went along a wide track to Kingsand, it was a lovely approach through a green park. There were so many people about: The place was crowded we walked down through the narrow streets and into Cawsand, where we turned up a lane and onto the coast path again. The path climbed steeply up through a wood and then up onto a track called The Earls Drive.

We just kept on walking, it was very flat and the bluebells were out and we even saw some fuchias in bloom, it was so sheltered along here. People were passing us every few minutes all along this walk today, the fog didn't seem to deter them. It was very off putting as we couldn't see further than the hedge. Sometimes a strange dog would appear and you knew that in a minute some people would come past. The sea was making quite a din as it was echoing in the fog. John summed it up when he said "Out for a walk to hear the view!". The track became a muddy path in a cow field, but it was still flat, we just kept on walking as we didn't know how near we were to the end of our walk.

Kingsand with the coastpath cutting across the first field.

The coastpath looking back towards Penlee Point

Eventually we turned inland and went past the manned lookout to the car park. We then went back to Cremyll and found that the weather had come in here now. We all went over the Torpoint Ferry and wandered around the Barbican in Plymouth to finish the day. Plymouth was crowded and it was difficult to park. It was raining hard now so we went to the Halfway House for dinner, it was a lovely finish for an Easter Sunday.

Rame Head from Penlee Point

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