A small part of section 18 in the SWCPA handbook
2.6km along the coast, 8.3km Inland, 27km by bus and 2km on the Rock ferry.
We returned to Padstow on the bus (More details of Go-Cornwall bus service and information later) and after walking through the busy town caught the ferry to Rock. I can remember catching this ferry and having to walk down a plank to the beach at Rock. However now this was efficient and well organised from a new pontoon at Padstow harbour.
After coffee in the “Upper deck” we walked initially along the beach and the the top of the sand dunes to Daymer Bay. As it was nearly High tide, only a small beach, rather than the extensive beach that I can remember from probably 60 years ago – at low tide.
We managed to find “Cliff Bank” that my aunt managed and “Treen” which was then owned by Sir John Betjeman and we had stayed in the 1960’s and then walked to St Enodock church, where they were preparing for a wedding.
Then across the Golf course, where a gentleman accused us of straying onto the course, even though we were clearly on a public footpath (Golfers need to learn to respect other’s right of way) and back to Rock for a good lunch at the Upper Deck.
Back to Padstow and after a while caught a bus that only went to Constintine Bay and so walked back to Porthcothan – why the bus service on a Saturday assumes that there are no visitors remains a mystery to Cornwall!
