SouthWest Coastal Path-Penzance to Plymouth-2023: DAY EIGHT

DAY 8 - MEVAGISSEY TO FOWLEY

Today we had an expanded group with Alisdair, Jonny and Leslie and their dog, Barney joining us. They are all good friends of Shelagh and Pete and typically join us for a stretch of our hikes. They will be with us for the next few days. We had to cover a lot of ground today so we cut off the first part and started in Charlestown Harbor, which you can see in the first pictures below, then up along the cliffs, past Carlyon Bay and eventually to the town of Par, which appropriately had a nice looking golf course. In Par we had to skirt inland around an old Clay Factory, across some dunes and that back up onto the cliffs to hike around the Gribbin headland. We stopped for lunch here, then headed past the point with the tall red and white Beacon and onto Fowley, our destination for tonight. Fowley was a bustling little resort town on an estuary nestled into the rocks. So, lots of climbing back and forth between our Guest House and restaurants. Since their were 9 of us for dinner tonight, we found a great little pizza place with good food and wine and refueled our bodies for tomorrow’s hike.