Day 22 St Ives to Lower Boscaswell Remote; Raw; Rocky; Ruinous

After nervously speaking on Radio Cornwall again, they kindly invited me back, we left a little later than anticipated. I blabbered; not my best. We strolled through St Ives before joining the gentle path up the headland.

The landscape changed becoming increasingly raw to wild, rugged moorland strewn with litchen covered granite rocks and boulders. Once the ferns and bluebells receded it reminded me of Dartmoor. The path became a roller coaster dodging rocks and scrambling across granite boulders, the coastline rugged and rocky down to the sea. My childhood scrambling the Dartmoor tors to the fore! We detoured to Zenner Church seeing famous mermaid carving in the old pew, and a picnic lunch. Of course we stopped for coffee too.

The afternoon was reminiscent of the Lake District, fell walking, picking your footing across rocky, boggy and stream laden paths, with hills, stepping stones and wooden bridges. The numerous ruins evidence of the areas’

tin and copper mining heritage. At times the path was close to the edge and steep but not vertiginous. We passed many ruins, headlands, coves with popular climbing rocks before climbing up to Pendeen lighthouse opened in 1900.

As we very belatedly approached the path up to Lower Boscaswell we saw the Trease shaft and the various parts of the Boscaswell mine.

Adventure in sound; Radio Cornwall

around 8:25am https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c4jl14 ~2hrs 25min 48+ secs in on the “making a difference spot”. (You may need a bbc app to listen?)

Official SW Coast path: 14miles

Official running total: 244miles

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  Mermaid pew Zenner church

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  Scilly isles

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  Pendeen lighthouse

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  Pendeen lighthouse

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  Trease shaft Boscaswell mine (copper & tin)

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  Trease shaft Boscaswell mine (copper & tin)

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  Trease shaft Boscaswell mine (copper & tin)

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And

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Thank you

Paula

PS We stayed at an airbnb 28A Lower Boscaswell Pendeen on 23 May; www.airbnb.co.uk