Day 16 23rd September Helford Passage to Portscatho
Took hours to get to sleep last night as my legs ached so much after the road walking yesterday. Rodney kindly dropped us at Helford Passage at 9.00 am - on familiar territory for us after lots of family holidays. We walked through the lovely Ilex woods under Mawnan Smith Church and on to Rosemullion Head, Maenporth, Swanpool and Falmouth. Having crossed by water many times between the Helford and the Fal it was lovely to experience the same journey by land. After the torrential rain during the night, the day was hot and humid, and sunny with scudding clouds. We were met on the jetty near the National Maritime Museum by Andrew and Veryan Pool in their wonderful 1930s 'Captain Pugwash' type boat with a rust coloured mizen sail. We chugged over to the Place Quay, drinking Pimms as we went, and just got near enough to disembark before the tide was too low. Just after we rejoined the coastal path it started to rain so we went into the lovely Church behind the house, and ate our picnics. We set off again in sunshine but very soon we had a heavy shower, and our waterproofs got another airing - very rare so far. It only lasted 45 minutes and the sun came out again. We rounded St Anthony's Head, passed the lighthouse on an easy path, and the Roseland Peninsula looked absolutely beautiful. We arrived at Port Scatho at 4.30 where Jane Scott kindly met us.
11 miles for the day 198 cummulative and estimated height for day 800.
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