Wednesday 8th October
This morning we woke up to drizzle which lasted all morning, but we already had on-line tickets for Tintagel Castle so we set off in the car. The castle is roughly level with the village of Tintagel, but you have to walk down a steep path before a climb back to enter the castle.
You enter the castle across a relatively new foot bridge (designed and manufactured by our son’s company in Southampton.
The views from the rock are pretty good and would have been better with a little sunlight. But we had to make the best of what we are presented with.
There isn’t a great deal on the rock to see, but the views are OK. Here’s a few of those images.
We walked down some pretty steep steps which takes us to the beach and café which was made more scary as I had to carry Holly as well. The café was worth the visit and the cakes were superb – highly recommended. Fortunately there was a minibus ride back up the hill, so we took the opportunity and paid the £2 each, but it didn’t take us up the steepest part of the hill. So we still had a struggle for the last 150m – so be warned. Don’t go down if you have real health issues.
From here we returned to the motorhome to collect our long lenses to head out for some bird photography (as the weather hadn’t improved much).
We were hoping for some shots of the Peregrine Falcons which are in the area as well as buzzards, but what we saw was totally different.
Images show male and female Stonechats.
The three images above are of the same Robin.
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