The return of Cam and Lucy

While I was home Cam and Lucy decided they'd like to come for another visit so it worked out perfectly for me to drive them down and then catch the National Express coach back. Libby was meant to be in Newquay but unfortunately so many girls pulled out during the preceding weeks and then days that her camping trip was cancelled but she was quite happy to stay home. As we headed south west the weather got better and better. By early afternoon we were pulling up at The Lighthouse. After a quick lunch we headed off to the Lizard Lifeboat Open Day.

Although we arrived at the tail-end of the event it transpired we didn't miss much as when they launched the lifeboat one of the engines failed. Then the helicopter arrived but had to depart almost immediately to perform a rescue! We had a tour of Rose and then walked into Lizard where I left Cam and Lucy at The Lighthouse Bar to watch the footy. Fish and chips courtesy of Lucy for tea.

We woke up to blue skies so decided on Gwithian where I went with Libby and Annie on the first hot day of the summer seven weeks earlier. We managed to sneak into the very nearly full car-park and started the day with an ice-cream from Sunset Surf. We had a picnic for lunch. Cam was most disappointed that neither home-made scotch eggs nor French bread and pate came out of the basket but managed to somehow enjoy his lunch.

Then it was on to the highlight of the day. Emma's homemade Shepherd's Pie as requested by Lucy. I was slightly apprehensive about the pie not living up to the original but Lucy pronounced it even better than the first. Phew.

Another day of sun and we decided on Rinsey Head followed by a late lunch at Kynance Cove. The former being more success than the latter.

Cam and Lucy loved Rinsey.

The view from Wheal Prosper down to the beach (by the way Wheal means "place of work". Wheal Prosper is the engine house for the mine that would have gone down hundreds of feet and under the sea).

After duly admiring Wheal Prosper we headed down the steep path to the beach and slithered down the last bit with a jump onto the sands. Lucy had bought a racquet and ball/badminton set which they played on and off the entire time we were there while I sunbathed and went for little wanders.

Hunger was getting the better of us so we upped sticks and headed for Kynance Cove. For the first time ever I wished we hadn't. First of all the car-park was full and the approach to it was full of parked cars. This meant we had to wait in line for a dozen or so cars to exit before a similar number could move into the car-park. We enjoyed lunch in the garden of the Cafe but when we got down to the beach, well, sadly it was destroyed. A favourable mid-afternoon low tide meant it was packed and everywhere you looked there were holes and sand castles and sand writing and footprints. My beloved Kynance had been desecrated :( Thank goodness the evening tide would wash it all away. It had cooled down a little by the time we settled down and after about 20 minutes we gave it up as a bad job as it was like trying to relax in the middle of Piccadilly Circus.

We headed home to freshen-up and then had a nice meal at The Harbour Inn in Portleven. Not our first choice but a combination of circumstances led us there and it was pretty good. In fact it was very good seeing as how Cam treated me as a belated Mother's Day present.

The weather turned overnight and I drove Cam and Lucy to Truro bus station in the rain. After a quick look around town, I mean city, it was home to meh weather and the beginning of three days of continuous foghorn.

Love from The Lizard Girl