South West Coast Way

The day for moving campsite dawned very dewy and half sunny. The forecast of yesterday had been promising sunshine... sounding unbroken and it turned out to be far from that! I got up and showered and had tomato pasta for breakfast that I had bought in Tesco in Truro on the drive home last night. I started putting the tent down. There was no point in letting it all dry out as I was going to be putting it back up in a couple of hours. I'd spied a likely campsite on the map near Dodman Point, the proposed end of my day's walk if I got chance to walk that far? I wandered down to the house at Dacum Farm to say goodbye, but there was a note on the door saying that Cath and Dee were out and would be back later. Not much later than a normal day and I had packed up all my stuff and dismantled the tent etc this morning. I set off on my journey of yesterday.. towards Falmouth and then Truro and then off towards St Austell. Just as I entered town I turned right down the B3273 towards ...

The day dawned overcast again, though I had expected that as the weather yesterday had said that it would be cloudy and that the cloud and hill fog would struggle to clear all day in the north. As I sat in the car listening to the radio the forecast was a bit more optimistic if anything, and they did actually mention the possibilities of glimpses of sunshine developing through the day. I was ready to go by 9am this morning and set off up the driveway. I knew that the drive to today’s bike drop off and car drop was going to be longer than ever. I was going to have to drive right inland and north through Truro and out towards St Austell to get around the far side of the Falmouth Estuaries. I wished I'd not booked and paid for the four nights camping at Lower Dacum Farm really, because at least then I wouldn't have had to drive back all the way to the campsite to head all the way out there again in the morning. Oh well! Not to worry. I can't get it right all of the time. Wit...

I woke up to the sound of drizzly rain on the tent at about 5am! Only the tiniest of almost inaudible spots, but drizzle nonetheless and everyone I had spoken to the day before had said that the weather was supposed to be as good if not better today than it had been yesterday. I was really hoping this was to be the case as I had only planned to walk to Falmouth today and thought I would have time to stop off on a naturist beach I had read about called Arthur's Beach on the final approaches to Falmouth. Sigh.. it seems perhaps that my sunbathing plans are not to be this year!! I went back to sleep and snoozed on and off until my phone alarm went off at 7.30am.. a normal workday.. I'd forgotten to switch it off! No matter I was awake enough to get up anyway. I poked my head outside the tent and it was dull and overcast with low misty grey clouds... sigh.. certainly looked like it was in for the day!! I went for a shower and then used the last half of stale baguette with processed...