We took a drive to find Cape Cornwall.

We drove through the countryside on very narrow winding roads and our first stop was Pendeen Light house. 

We actually thought this was Cape Cornwall.  There were two short walks you could do.  One path lead to the lighthouse and the other up over the cliff with fabulous views out to sea.  We then continued on our drive across the fields filled with wildflowers in yellow, pinks and white. The hillsides were dotted with the ruins old tin mines and pump houses. 

We drove into St Just and then spotted the sign to Cape Cornwall.  We followed an even narrower winding road with big hedges either side.  This eventually reached a National Trust carpark and we spoke to the Nat Trust lady there and said we would like to join.  Well, we were treated like royalty.  An Irish lady full of good humour.  She told us to park and come back to the hut and she chatted and chatted excitedly to us and said we had made her day.  We parted with 73 pounds and in return we received an info pack and directory and the parking sticker.  She gave us a spare parking sticker which meant we could stick one on the windscreen and we know have one to either take home or use if we are someone else car.

The lady then showed us this object that a woman and her child had found on the beach that morning.  It was a very heavy squarish metal object.  We were thinking it was perhaps and old WW2 bomb and she obviously had, had that thought too.  And she said, oh don’t worry I am pretty sure it’s not a bomb.  We hope not.

We then went off to explore Cape Cornwall.  You start from high up on the cliff and can take a walk to a lookout even  higher up on the cliff or walk around the base of the cliff. At the top of the lookout is a memorial to the fact that the Heinz company had purchased the whole Cape for it’s centenary and gifted the entire lot to the National Trust.

The views are amazing.  You can see Lands End and you have the English Channel on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.  There are a few small fishermens cottages, small rowing boats at the entrance to the harbour and rows and rows of lobster pots.

Along the route we came across a stone circle in a paddock.  We parked the car and climbed over the stile and went and had a look.  Quite amazing.  We were the only ones there so we walked around the stones and touched them and wondered like everyone else what it all means.  Later looking at the map we discovered they are called the Merry Maidens.