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Days Out and Walking Holidays in Cornwall
Countryfile magazine the SWCP team and walkitcornwall
- Posted in blog
- on Saturday, 18 February 2012 12:59
Perceptions of place. I'll let you into a secret about being a guide. One of my jobs is not to say what I personally think but to give the opinions of the many who have been before. To unearth the myriad of facts, fables and personal stories and fine tune them into an interesting and entertaining sliver of information. Religion like politics can be a very emotive subject and likewise if you look at the many perceptions of what Cornwall is and means, it becomes an often divisive subject, full of emotion, differing interpretation of facts and historical ambiguities.
This is what has drawn me to the county and has influenced and formed my approach to guiding. The many aspects of Cornwall from the geology, flora and fauna to the maritime, industrial and religious heritage gives each place in Cornwall its own unique DNA.
Walking on the folds of Crackington Haven
- Posted in blog
- on Friday, 13 January 2012 16:38
Friday the 13!! Worried? Us? No! However...... See the arch above, left hand side of the picture? We stopped before it whilst one of our party made a phonecall and to gather our thoughts before we moved on. I look around and some large pieces of rock, large enough to cause a fatality dropped off the top of the arch with a loud impact onto the rocks below. We live to tell the tale. Respect for the 13th and a Friday that accompanies it, from now on.
Lamorna and Mousehole January walk
- Posted in blog
- on Thursday, 12 January 2012 15:29
Aaaaah! A collective sigh for the new year. After all the festivities it is great to get out and about and do what the legs and muscles have been screaming to do. And what weather we have had.
Lizard Peninsula walking holiday in Cornwall 2011
- Posted in blog
- on Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:06
The Lizard coastal walk. 60kms or 37.5 miles of coast path from Porthleven to Helford on the Helford River around the Southernmost point of the UK.
It is the beauty of the place, unrivalled even within the county of Cornwall that brings so many people back here year after year and keeps us locals revisiting on a weekly basis. The colours and light forever changing and reinventing the words that describe a beautiful landscape.
FRAWF walk
- Posted in blog
- on Sunday, 13 November 2011 09:34
Cornwall is blessed with so many wonderful habitats and scenery that it is often a great idea to promote a single area for a festival. The problem only starts when one has to define the boundaries to include and exclude some areas from others. The Fal River estuary has up to 160kms (100m) of shoreline if one includes the Helford rivers' 42 kms and the south west coast path up to Portloe.
The Fal River Autumn Walking Festival spopnsored by the Nare Hotel has just had its inaugural set of walks. A variety of guides and walks were provided from wild food walks with Rachel Lambert to National Trust walks lead by Neil Stevenson amongst others. We have had nordic walking, walks on the maritime heritage of Falmouth and many downloadable self guided walks.
Clouds on an invisible track
- Posted in blog
- on Sunday, 18 September 2011 13:42
What is it about September photos that are so different from the rest of the year? Suddenly we have processions of clouds from the South West to the North East following the hidden track of the predominant winds like hangers on a rail.
Weather predicting. Art or luck?
- Posted in blog
- on Sunday, 16 October 2011 10:01
Walking in bad weather is better than sitting in an office in good weather.
Bad weather still means good walking; it’s just that great weather usually means great walking. So the game to be played with Mother Nature is how to be walking in good weather all week.
When mist and fog envelope the bays and headlands further up and down the coast from where you are standing in clear visibility one can be tempted to entertain smugness but pride comes before a fall so let it be fleeting.
Whose "sori" now?
- Posted in blog
- on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:20
- (Say with a Clouseau accent until you laugh) “Sorry, I’m on the fern”. Clutch one of the 53 species in Britain to your ear as you walk down a damp, enclosed sunken lane or a path in a wood. Yup, pteridophytes can be fun, even if it has taken them 400 million years to be included in a one-liner. Oh and please don’t pick a fresh one, that’s the countryside code.
Autumns approach: An awareness of change
- Posted in blog
- on Sunday, 02 October 2011 09:51
Intensity: Wind: Light: Waves: Perfect insects’ final dance: Natures last throw of the dice: Birds knowledgeable, warbling their mournful autumnal tunes. Blink and you miss the subtlety of change; the announcement that we are in the death throws of growth and vibrancy and we are entering the time of decay, death and reinvention.
Low tide scrambling. The Cornwall coast is a new land.
- Posted in blog
- on Sunday, 04 September 2011 09:25
Very low tides mean scrambling! Very low tides mean you can see the Cornish landscape from an unusual angle where the sea floor is revealed and a different vista can be enjoyed. Caves can be explored, geology viewed close up that might not be exposed further up on the Coast Path. New beaches are yours to run about on whilst islands, so often out of reach can be accessed and conquered.
Low tide coastline becomes a new playground for walkers.
So many butterflies in Cornwall
- Posted in blog
- on Monday, 26 September 2011 11:42
Butterflies are invertebrates, having a back bone or more accurately jointed limbs, from the group “Anthropoda”. Moving down the taxonomic classification they are from the order Lepidoptera which means “scale wings” which describes the scaly membrane that gives them their unique colours. Having said that look at the photo of the Red Admiral- more orange than red.
One thing I didn’t know for a while was that some species of butterflies live for a few days (common blue) whilst most can hibernate and live on to the following spring. Some over winter as larvae and others as full adults. Others are migrants from warmer climes.
The shape of topiary in the Mendips
- Posted in blog
- on Thursday, 18 August 2011 07:56
This topiary was seen on a walk in the Mendips when I was up there recently with the family. Now call me old fashioned but am I missing something here or are these topiary shapes, well you know, rather obvious?
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