Total: 232+m / Daily:28m / Constant Wind, Regular Showers / 1x Pod of Dolphins
Busy day today, a total of 29 miles which certainly wouldn't have happened if I didn't bump into the Coaster Crew part way through the morning, in Porthtowan I think it was. Sarge was eating chocolate, Nick, a pork pie and Nog consulting maps. (reread that last sentence as a list of things Sarge was eating, haha!). I suppose it was subconsciously because others were eating, but I got rather hungry and pulled out my bag of trail mix I had created in Aldi in Newquay. I was promptly slated for eating bird food, but to hell with 'em, it's tasty stuff. It contains peanuts, cashews, hazelnuts, almonds, raisins, dried: red & green apple, mango, pineapple & kiwi. I have 1kg of it, that's the only downside. I will attempt to take this entry chronologically:
I saw a pod of dolphins this morning, or rather, a man saw them and pointed them out to me. I saw a man running round the headland and assumed he had lost a dog or something. He said he'd been following them for a couple of days and they'd just passed us. I turned around and walked back along the path for 5 (back, I know!) minutes and sure enough, at the next outcrop we could see 10-15 of them, jumping out of the water heading east.
I passed a DoE bronze group a little later slogging their way up a hillside of a valley. They are all part of the Air Cadets and I saw a couple of other groups throughout the morning, it must be DoE weekend. One of the lads, Christian, said they had learned about prostate cancer in school and what a great charity it is. Christian then began routing around for a donation. His fellow cadets also donated and I am very thankful for their support. Christian donated mostly in coppers which added a fair weight to my bag for the day and I'll spare you the embarrassment of the story regarding why it was all coppers in case you read this Christian! I'm glad I bumped into their assessor further up the path and was able to share what a credit to their organisation that group are. (One bit of advice: get cracking with the service/skill/sport, that's the one that will hold up your progression through the award scheme.)
Approaching lunchtime, I arrived at the everlasting sands near Hayle. It was spitting with rain and progressively getting harder. I took shelter in a lovely sandy cave and had lunch. Peanut butter wrap x2 and some bird food, delicious.
The showers continued into Hayle, 'The birthplace of the industrial revolution and it doesn't seem to have moved on a great deal since. I hid in the co-op as the first downpour came, the shop owner saying it was the heaviest rain she'd seen since moving there 8 years ago. I will try and upload the video I took at some point.
From this point it was about 6 miles to St. Ives along roads, tracks, concrete paths and other urban environment. I took shelter from the next heavy downpour in a pub but the third got me. I was perfectly happy in full raingear and remained dry and in high spirits. The rain was incredibly heavy and the steep steps up into St. Ives were literally a waterfall. It was amusing to see stones the size of a tennis ball being washing down the path, it makes erosion much easier to appreciate!
Met CC Crew in the pub and was able to take up the offer made 18miles ago of a shower. Nog gave me his dessert, an unexpected surprise of icecream, biscuit, coffee and amaretto (sp.?) and I bought a pizza to eat as I wandered out of town looking for a place to pitch. 2miles onto a 'severe' section I found the perfect flat grassy patch on an outcrop sheltered by the wall of an old mining structure.
What a day.
Busy day today, a total of 29 miles which certainly wouldn't have happened if I didn't bump into the Coaster Crew part way through the morning, in Porthtowan I think it was. Sarge was eating chocolate, Nick, a pork pie and Nog consulting maps. (reread that last sentence as a list of things Sarge was eating, haha!). I suppose it was subconsciously because others were eating, but I got rather hungry and pulled out my bag of trail mix I had created in Aldi in Newquay. I was promptly slated for eating bird food, but to hell with 'em, it's tasty stuff. It contains peanuts, cashews, hazelnuts, almonds, raisins, dried: red & green apple, mango, pineapple & kiwi. I have 1kg of it, that's the only downside. I will attempt to take this entry chronologically:
I saw a pod of dolphins this morning, or rather, a man saw them and pointed them out to me. I saw a man running round the headland and assumed he had lost a dog or something. He said he'd been following them for a couple of days and they'd just passed us. I turned around and walked back along the path for 5 (back, I know!) minutes and sure enough, at the next outcrop we could see 10-15 of them, jumping out of the water heading east.
I passed a DoE bronze group a little later slogging their way up a hillside of a valley. They are all part of the Air Cadets and I saw a couple of other groups throughout the morning, it must be DoE weekend. One of the lads, Christian, said they had learned about prostate cancer in school and what a great charity it is. Christian then began routing around for a donation. His fellow cadets also donated and I am very thankful for their support. Christian donated mostly in coppers which added a fair weight to my bag for the day and I'll spare you the embarrassment of the story regarding why it was all coppers in case you read this Christian! I'm glad I bumped into their assessor further up the path and was able to share what a credit to their organisation that group are. (One bit of advice: get cracking with the service/skill/sport, that's the one that will hold up your progression through the award scheme.)
Approaching lunchtime, I arrived at the everlasting sands near Hayle. It was spitting with rain and progressively getting harder. I took shelter in a lovely sandy cave and had lunch. Peanut butter wrap x2 and some bird food, delicious.
The showers continued into Hayle, 'The birthplace of the industrial revolution and it doesn't seem to have moved on a great deal since. I hid in the co-op as the first downpour came, the shop owner saying it was the heaviest rain she'd seen since moving there 8 years ago. I will try and upload the video I took at some point.
From this point it was about 6 miles to St. Ives along roads, tracks, concrete paths and other urban environment. I took shelter from the next heavy downpour in a pub but the third got me. I was perfectly happy in full raingear and remained dry and in high spirits. The rain was incredibly heavy and the steep steps up into St. Ives were literally a waterfall. It was amusing to see stones the size of a tennis ball being washing down the path, it makes erosion much easier to appreciate!
Met CC Crew in the pub and was able to take up the offer made 18miles ago of a shower. Nog gave me his dessert, an unexpected surprise of icecream, biscuit, coffee and amaretto (sp.?) and I bought a pizza to eat as I wandered out of town looking for a place to pitch. 2miles onto a 'severe' section I found the perfect flat grassy patch on an outcrop sheltered by the wall of an old mining structure.
What a day.
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