Signs and such at Padstow

We were just saying how like Rockport it was; I had to look twice at the sign on this storefront.








Gooseberry yogurt and ginger fairing ice creams


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Inlet at Padstow

Padstow is along an inlet, crossing of which would require loads of driving farther to the south and then swinging up the other side. So there's the cutest little ferry across it.


The sun started to peek out at moments.


Can you see the tiny white sails of sailboats? Another reason to love Padstow!


And some points of interest:





Plus gourmet food! We have not been awfully lucky with food, outside St. Albans, to date.


Classic pub.


Fried Cadbury Cream Eggs! How revolting.


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Lovely Padstow

We are making a list of Reasons to Come Back to Cornwall. Trebarwith Strand is on it, and now so is Padstow.

It started with the series of locks in the harbor.





It continued with the brick-and-wood building enclosing "fishermen's shacks" (not very shack-like). The huge Metropole Hotel looms over the building, on the right. Fresh fish for sale inside. And a lobster hatchery.

Businesses cluster at the harbor front, with narrow, narrow streets extending out from the harbor.








Three Cornish pasty bakeries in a row!


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Hmm, regarding Portquin and seaside ruins

Just did a little reading on Port Quin (apparently the current preferred treatment of the name), and it seems that the great storm was in 1698! Don't know how that explains that apparently more recent, yet ruined, wall that served as fencing for the gray-blue house.

And as regards the ruins in the cliff face that we saw on our Tintagel walk: They may have been quarry works dating back to the 15th century.




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Portquin

The draw at Portquin was that, after a terrible storm at sea more than a century ago had taken nearly all the menfolk, the women abandoned the village. Derelict seaside homes were described.

Sadly, big money has settled in. Private this, do not use, do not stand in this spot--and a significant collection of plastic waste on the beach! But we got a few nice shots, and one very blurry one of a doorway right on the narrow roadway. There was no way to get it focused, but it's a picture of a truly derelict home in Portquin.


This house ruin is being used to 'fence' new property, visible through the window hole.


Quayside steps to a 3'-wide, shallow, rocky creek. Weird.


The abandoned home on the road into town:


And what Portquin is actually about:


The wall to the right of the house, below, is old; the second picture provides more detail.


More detail of the wall, and a pile of modern kayaks! LOL





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What is this?

We saw this plant, with geranium leaves and tree-like trunks, at Port Isaac. What on earth?


Then, at Portquin, we saw this very bizarre, um, flower?





I'll have to try to identify when I have a stretch of blank time.

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The bay at Port Isaac

We were confused as to whether the dual breakwaters were associated with Port Gaverne or Port Isaac, but we parked at Port Isaac, and didn't walk far.


Obviously, the day wasn't as nice as the five or six previous had been, but we've been incredibly lucky regarding the weather.





Loads of homes perch on Cornish hillsides!











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