When you visit Cornwall you come to one of the most beautiful parts of the Country. Famous for its rugged breathtaking scenery, which has now become a mecca for outdoor sports and those just wishing to soak up the atmosphere.
Carlyon Bay
Situated in St Austell Bay, Carlyon Bay is a beautiful spot to visit with a wide range of scenery and activity. As you arrive at the coastal footpath your view across the two mile, sandy stretch of Carlyon Bay is breath-taking. The beach leads to the magnificent promontory of Gribben Head.
Carlyon Bay, Rock and Padstow
Padstow
Padstow is situated on the beautiful and rugged North Cornwall coast with its towering cliffs, wide sandy beaches, hidden coves and beautiful countryside.
The town of Padstow is an ancient, but busy fishing port with picturesque pastel colourwashed and stone cottages nestling in the narrow streets leading down to the harbour and quays.
A few miles away along the coast is the busy village of St Merryn with its seven spectacular bays and surfing beaches.
Inland among the beautiful countryside are several rural villages, which include Little Petherick and St. Issey near to the Pretty Camel Valley.
Rock
The town of Rock is located across the Camel Estuary from the fishing port of Padstow. It has a beautiful beach which stretches long the side of the Camel all the way around to Daymer Bay at low tide and further to Polzeath. The mile long fine sand beach is fringed with dunes and the water is unusually calm and clear - whatever anybody may tell you there is no surf in Rock!
There is a regular foot ferry across to Padstow during daylight hours, the Black Tor, a major source of tourist traffic to Rock.
Daymer Bay is a good place to sunbathe and is popular with families owing to its relatively safe bathing. It has an attractive 18 hole golf course and St Enodoc church is worth a visit with its distinctive 13th century steeple. John Betieman, the famous poet laurette is buried there. A couple of hundred years ago the church became buried by the sands with access only through the roof at one time - happily you can now use the front entrance once again.
