Coming to the end of a wonderful week in Cornwall. Fri 8th and Sat 9th

Early morning walk to investigate the little chapel and visit the bay the other side of the Cape. .

 Wonderful old stone walls spilling over with thrift. 

The remains of a tiny early Christian chapel - St Helen's Oratory. The cross is a replacement from nearby after the orginal cross was lost. 

Inside.

Looking across the chapel wall to the mine at the top of the hill.

Donald Arthur Payne and Margaret Ann Wheeler are buried near the chapel - very little is known about them. 

Going back up the field towards the gate I disturbed a delightful group of rabbits.

Heading down towards the bay. 

I really wasn't expecting to see bluebells in June! 

 Getting nearer. 

Kidney vetch. 

Almost at the beach - a pile of tangled rope, nets, leather and rubber....this was mentioned by one of the other artists who had a residency at Brisons Veor on the website.

The rocks are very different this side of the cape - large and more colourful, very few smaller pebbles and there's some sand too.

The smooth wave shaped rocks have wonderful streaks of white chunky materials in.

An old car tyre shows the scale of these boulders. 

I found the patterns of stripes really intriguing

The limpets created more patterns. 

Sorry - even more rocky stripes and limpet patterns coming! 

Most of the seaweed around Cape Cornwall is very tough and rubbery.

A huge rock that reminded me of Easter Island heads - it even had thrift hair sprouting on the top.

Another kind of rock pattern. 

Thready veins in the dark rock - and limpets

Something wave-washed and battered, trapped under a big heavy rock -

Limpets in a dip in the rock. 

Sandy area at the top of the beach. 

Tall rocky structures. 

Yellow lichen. 

The path back to the cottage. 

A line of red hot pokers (kniphofia).

Trying some different arrangements of my crochet containers

It was looking a bit misty again. 

Little bird with a loud voice

Photography on the rocks. Seven containers - one for each day. 

Distracted by the waves.

Extra container, coated in wax, floating on a rockpool.

Distracted again! 

At last - I've found one of these pink flowers fully open! 

An extra trip up to the coastguard's hut to watch the crashing sea. 

The steps to the coastguards hut,

Later on - watching surfers from the cottage sitting room.

Sunlight breaking through the mist on the cliffs in the distance.

Bright stripy caterpillar

Back to the coastguard's hut to see if there will be a good sunset on our last evening. 

A pink balloon was floating on the sea - lovely ripples on the water.

The sun sank down into the mist. 

Early Saturday morning and time to say goodbye to this beautiful place. 

Last look at the tin mine and the bench below, which was just outside our cottage

Heading past the big sails of a Cornish wind farm

Thank you so much to Jodi for inviting us to join her on this adventure 

and thank you for joining me here on my blog.