Sunsets over West Cornwall

Beth and I just returned from our summer holiday – a week in West Cornwall. Even for someone born in St Austell, we were a long way west. The Penwith Heritage Coast was the heart of Cornwall’s hard rock mining industry which extracted tin, copper and arsenic in particular. With other employments including fishing, farming, smuggling and wrecking, Cornwall was a tough place in the nineteenth century, when tin mining there peaked and declined.

The sunsets over the sea were particularly beautiful:

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Polkerris



Polkerris 3, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

Walked to Polkerris this morning, along the cliffs from Par: picture postcard beautiful and I even had a sneaky bacon bap ;-)

Cornish Woodland, Lanhydrock



Lanhydrock 38, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

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Lanhydrock House, Cornwall



Lanhydrock 192, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

Caerhays Castle gardens in Spring



Caerhays 100, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

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Caerhays 148, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

“Charisma”



"Charisma", originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

An old fishing boat in Padstow

Extreme Academy, Watergate Bay



Extreme Academy, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.

An entertaining prospect, well marketed, with great facilities on Watergate Bay beach under Fifteen Cornwall.

Cornish Easter Skydiving

Turns out to consist of listening to the hail this Easter.

Ho hum.