Catching up - the start of the Cornwall trip (Saturday 2nd)

On Saturday June 2nd, just after 6am three of us from our art group set off for a week at Brisons Veor, St Just, Cape Cornwall. Two of us were invited by our friend who had an artist's residency there for a week. I've never been to Cape Cornwall before.

I love heading off to the West Country - and it always feels extra exciting if we pass Stonehenge on the way. For some reason I always feel compelled to take a photo from the moving car (obviously not if I'm driving!) This is probably the best I've managed so far - we didn't slow down for it.

We had a coffee stop on the way and then a longer break in St Ives much later on. We parked at the top of St Ives and walked down to the harbour where we enjoyed a lovely walk along the beach.

The tide was out - tracks, floats, and seaweed covered chains and ropes spread out across the sand.

Two of us caught the bus back up to the car park while our younger and fitter friend reached the car park before us! 

We stopped at the supermarket for supplies then headed on to the place where we were staying. Brisons Veor is a wonderful stone cottage "originally part of the boiler house of the Cape Cornwall Tin Mine", converted into a dwelling in 1978. The house belongs to the National Trust and is managed by Trustees to "provide year-round affordable residencies for creatives working in all media". A private narrow track, not much more than a car width, leads to parking for the cottage and for the coastguards - but apparently it's now a National Coastwatch Station and the people who keep watch there are watchkeepers! To us they were coastguards. They help safeguard the lives of fishermen, yachtsmen, canoeists and other users of coastal waters. 

The cottage is an upside down house - this is the view from the Juliet balcony in the sitting room, across the track to the sea and the rocks. This view every day for a week. WOW! 

Steps up to the coastguards hut.

Looking down at the rocks while the sun sunk down.

Thank you very much for joining me. 

more to follow.......