The same day we did the Spit Cliffs walk on a rainy afternoon (last post), we also did a walk-about in nearby Mevagissey that sunny morning. Don't you love weather!
Mevagissey is only 6 miles SW from the St. Austell area, our homebase.
[Google image]
As we drove along the coast to get there, Pauline stopped the car to show us this view.
Now you know why Cornwall is a MUST for so many people.
Mevagissey is one of many wee fishing ports that makes Cornwall so idyllic.
It's population is only 2K.
As you turn the corner, there she is.
We arrived while the tide was still mostly in (an important detail we're learning).
Look at how the town hugs its harbor. It's their livelihood.
When you step back to get the bigger picture, it's a rugged livelihood.
But deep inside the harbor, you feel the coziness of it.
Dare you leave the breakwater, you pass the the massive rock formation to the open sea.
[Am still trying to find if it has a name, that rock! Surely?!]
Did you see the wee lighthouse in the preceding collage, bottom-right image?
Once you reach it, you are "out to sea," so to speak.
The vantage point from the lighthouse that day highlighted this yellow beauty.
She's the Valhalla BH-9 trawler of the Mevagissey fleet.
How fun to look up these boats like they're people!
And how fun to see evidence that this truly is a fishing port.
While walking back from the lighthouse, guess what!
The tide was now out and we got to see the beached boats that still amaze us to no end.
So Astrid, of course, climbed down to search for treasures, of which she found many
(for her blue bag).
(for her blue bag).
See what I mean about Cornwall?! So idyllically wonderful.
Don't get me wrong...it has its own economic trials and tribulations.
BUT...it is a treasure to be found and taken care of while cherishing.
