slowly she turned

Another day of chilly weather, but I’ll take that over heat any day.

For lunch, we returned to the Mote Inn, which is in a building that dates back to 1547. There I had the St. Austell mussels, which are topped with a kind of seaweed called samphire, which looks a bit like asparagus. And that sauce, oh my god. They were so good.

We wandered around Port Isaac today, and Lisa and Susan took a hike up the other side of the Coast Path, up the hill that you see in the photos above. I puttered around on the Platt (what the locals call the beach at the harbour), picking up sea glass, pottery sherds, and interesting stones.

Workers were pulling the chains and ropes around on the beach.

Since it was low tide, I took the opportunity to walk up the trail on the right side of the harbour, which is covered quickly with water when the tide rises, to look at the rock pools.

Textures and colors, oh my

And what did I discover? A great cave to explore.

No not this one ^. It was just an interesting crack in the cliff.

This one! I had to navigate some shallow water with shifty stones across it. It’s a wonder that I didn’t fall in. Once I got there, I wanted to stay for a while but I was worried about the tide coming in and having to walk through the water to get to the beach.

I am quite frustrated that I seem to have deleted the video that I took walking inside the cave. Until I find a way to post it, here’s a link to the Facebook video post. The video turned off when I tried to turn on the flashlight, but it didn’t go back too much farther.

Over the course of the day, I walked around the town’s narrow streets and alleys, including one called Squeeze Belly Alley, that goes under a building. I decided to include the photos of Geranium Cottage, our rental, in this slideshow below.

That evening, Lisa and Susan made a big effort to find a restaurant downhill that would do takeout, but it turns out that after 4 pm your choices are limited to fish and chips and pasties. So we ate pasties and crackers and cheese and salad and fruit and drank libations that we bought at the grocery in Boscastle while we watched “Doc Martin.” We were reluctantly packing for the next morning and cleaning out the fridge.