Day 19 Sunday 26th Sept Polkerris to Polperro
Left Kilmarth at 9.00 am and enroute to the beach through the woods Bryan managed to give his shin a nastly graze - messy but it didn't seem to hold him back! The sky was yet again clear and blue, very little wind and a flat calm sea. The path took us around the Gribbin across Polridmouth Beach and into Fowey, where we dropped into see Peter Voelcker for a cooling drink before crossing on the ferry to Polruan. We luckily found a little tea room open, and had some sandwiches made for our picnic. The walk from there to Polperro was beautiful along the cliff top with a wide variety of wild flowers still out. It was however very testing in that there were a series of very steep ascents and descents - my legs felt like jelly by the time we reached Polperro. Realised that I had left my makeup and my shoes by mistake in the bag we had purposely left at Nutty's for me to collect after the walk. We were now carrying everything on our backs that we would need for the next two and a half day. Amazing on a Sunday loads of shops were open - bought makeup and found a pair of shoes for £10 which the owner of the shop put straignt into Byran's Merlin tin. (Not sure I could appear bare foot for dinner at Antony!) We have been amazed at the kindness and generosity of the people we have met in the past three weeks. Since we started walking we have collected £890 - and alot of people are aware of the Merlin Project that weren't before. Booked in with B&B - pretty tired. En route to a telephone box, as no signal on our phones, bumped into Clare Fortescue who did the same walk last year for Help for Heroes.
Miles 10 Cumulative 234 Height 1800'.
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