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Walked 22.9.1996: Ascent
1805 ft : Descent 1458 ft : Distance 6.88 miles: 5 hrs |
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We caught
John up on the A30 and travelled together to Zennor, parking
our car in the little car park once again by the museum. We went
to St. Ives and parked John's on the harbour wall. St Ives was
busy and on the harbour there were crowds of people. We chatted
to the car park lady for a few moments and then wandered off
through the street up past the coastguard station and on past
an old chapel on the point. We then went along the sea front
at Porthmeor Beach and the Tate Gallery. The coast path started
from a park where we had our photo taken, and then we went out
through a gate and onto the headland.
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Helen,
Dot & John leaving St Ives |
There were so many people here wandering around.
The turf had boulders scattered about so we had to skirt most
of them then the path got muddy in places so we had to go over
stepping stones. The views from along here were beautiful we
could see the little fishing boats all pottering around. The
smell of the gorse today in the sun was quite overpowering·
The path became strewn with large boulders and we had to climb
over them again eventually we reached a point called Carn Naun
where we thankfully sat on a large stoney outcrop and had lunch.
We took off our rucksacks to let our t-shirts dry out in the
sun. We stayed here for a while and then went down a very steep
coombe and jumping over a stream at the bottom was in Trevail
Valley. Here there is a beach of sorts made up of tumbled rocks
where we saw plenty of seals. We went on to Mussel Point where
we sat down on a lovely grassy bank and saw seals so close that
you could throw a sandwich at them. We watched the large tripper
boats come from St Ives full up with sightseers go round the
Carrack rocks to watch the seals. They had wonderful views of
them as many were sun bathing on the rocks in plain sight.
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Helen
above Wicca Pool |
We could
see Zennor Head in the distance as we rounded the curved area
known as Wicca Pool. The sea was surging in here today. The path
became very steep and rough again and it took some negotiating
A couple of walkers passed us here, they were on a coast path
walking holiday and were pushing on to Gurnards Head. We crept
up the last steep sea pink covered slope to reach the top and
here there were a lot of people and we noticed a plaque stating
we were on Zennor Head and that it was 300' high. We turned off
the path towards Zennor and saw all the steps that we had previously
climbed up on our last walk here. The ½ mile road was
very long and winding back to Zennor but at least we got to the
church this time and saw the little mermaid carved on the pew
end. The pub was doing a brisk trade but we just went back to
the car and went back to St. Ives.
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Above:
Gurnards Head from Zennor Head
Below:
Walking back to Zennor from Zennor Head
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