Around Padstow

Starting from the car park in Padstow, 

 ... I looked round the harbour,

 ...stopping to buy a pasty from the Chough Bakery (fantastic).

 I was heading out on the coast path.

I nearly stopped to buy a hat,

 ...and I loved this painting in a shop window.

I soon left the town behind, passing the war memorial, with its recent poppy wreaths. 

...and a great view back down the Camel estuary

Looking ahead to Hawkers Cove, there's a short cut across the beach at low tide, but I kept to the path.

Looking back across Hawkers Cove.

 Here's the old Lifeboat House, now residential.

What a view from the patio!

Finally, a glimpse of blue sky

Sunshine on Polzeath, over the estuary

And again on Pentire point! (Not the Pentire near Newquay: this is a different one)

Stepper Point - a daymark used by boats. The channel into Padstow needs careful navigation because of the Doom Bar sand bank.  Great name, now used by a brand of Cornish beer. And it was also the inspiration for Tennyson's poem, "Crossing the bar"

More of this walk tomorrow

Walk details: Out and back to Stepper Point is 6 miles. It's almost as easy to keep going, as I did, to Harlyn Bay and catch the bus back. (details tomorrow) or take a footpath back across the fields, say through Crugmeer, which would then be about 5 miles fairly easy walking.