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2 May 2016
Transat start at Plymouth

From Cawsand to Penlee Point to watch the start of the single handed Transat yacht race. Breakfast at Kingsand and then sat in the drizzly rain at Penlee Point for a couple of hours but the gloop mostly cleared in time f…

13 Sep 2026
Kingsand / Cawsand

A wander down from Maker Heights into Kingsand and Cawsand. Managed to get a pint in both The Devonport and The Cross Keys. Happy days. Spotted the autonomous boat thingie again - it really is quite big.

12 Sep 2026
Rame Head - again!

Tye's first walk to Rame Head. Our 47th walk to Rame Head - probably. Very nice day for it too. Saw one of those autonomous boat things and then went back to Maker Heights for the first time in a couple of years.

5 Sep 2023
Cawsand to Plymouth

Too windy to go kayaking so we took the ferry from Cawsand to Plymouth - the first time in all the years we've been coming to Cawsand / Kingsand. A very "rolly" boat for the F5 winds (but given that it "lands" on the bea…

4 Sep 2023
Penlee Point

Very hot day so too hot to take Scooby on our usual Rame Head walk. So we stopped at Penlee Point and watched a helicopter taking off with supplies for the Eddystone Light House.

13 Jan 2024
The big three oh

Times two! Birthday lunch at the Cawsand Bay Hotel and then the traditional yomp to Rame Head for Jaffa Cakes and Prosecco..

17 Jul 2020
Cawsand to Rame Head - again!

Liz's favourite walk. Scooby's third favourite walk. I went along too.

2 Dec 2018
Rame Head - again!

The "Tribby" (our camper van) hadn't been moved for a couple of months so we too it on a road trip down to Cornwall. Liz's favourite walk - from Cawsand to Rame Head and back again.

11 Aug 2017
Maker and Cawsand

In the camper van at Maker again. Walked down to Cawsand to give the dog a swim and for a pint in the Rising Sun. The weather that evening was really gloopy for mid August!

12 Aug 2017
Maker Heights to Rame Head

In the camper van at Maker Heights again. As usual a walk to Rame Head and back again with a stop off at Kingsand Beach for Scooby to do some swimming. Liz and I got married at Polhawn Fort (the other side of the peninsu…

8 Apr 2017
Birthday dinner at the Devonport

Liz and the hound took me to the Devonport for a birthday dinner. Down the cliff path from the campsite at Maker Heights to Cawsand.

9 Apr 2017
Maker to Rame Head

The usual walk from Cawsand to Rame Head - only slightly longer as we had the campervan up on Maker Heights. A gloriously hot sunny day at the start of April.

17 Oct 2016
Cawsand to Rame Head

Lizzie's favourite walk - again! After driving through a torrential downpour in Plymouth, the walk from Cawsand to Rame Head was mostly sunny with about F5 winds.

11 Mar 2012
Cawsand to Rame Head

Lizzies favouritist ever walk and by default Scoobys too. From the carpark in Cawsand to the hermits house on Rame Head and then back to the Devonport Arms for lunch.

30 Apr 2016
Maker and the Devonport Arms

First trip in the new Fiat Ducato Tribute campervan. Camping at Maker Heights and down to the Devonport in Kingsand for a pint.

21 Feb 2016
Rame Head

Liz's favourite walk and Scooby was quite keen too. Protected from the strong westerly winds until finally climbing to the hermit's house at the end of Rame Head

25 Sep 2015
Quick paddle round Cawsand/Kingsand bay

The forecast offshore north to north west turned out to be almost a southerly so there some small waves as we headed off from Cawsand to Fort Picklecombe. So we turned round and went a little way towards Penlee Point. A…

29 Jun 2015
Rame Head

Liz's favourite walk! A visit after a weekend in Lostwithiel with Richard & Helen to take in Motorhead and The Stranglers at the Eden Sessions. As I was wandering along the coastpath, I was idly wondering whether I've se…

16 Jan 2014
Polhawn remembered

Cawsand to Polhawn and along the cliff paths to the View Cafe (shut). Back via Wiggle.

13 Jan 2014
Moonlit walk to dinner

A round trip from Fort Pickelcombe to the Devonport Inn. Along the cliff path in the moon light. Romantic and muddy in about equal measures. The Devonport was as good as old times. Good food, nice wine, friendly..

13 Jan 2014
Lizzie birthday walk to Rame Head

From Cawsand to Rame Head on a Lizzie big birthday. Drinking champagne at the end of Rame Head in a hail storm in January!

12 Jan 2014
Fort Picklecombe to Cawsand and back

A morning constitutional for Scooby before the rain came in

12 Sep 2013
Cawsand to Rame Head

A drive from one side of Cornwall to the other to do Lizzies favourite walk. The rain and fog from north Cornwall didnt make it down to the south coast to affect this walk from Cawsand to Rame head and back again.

27 Nov 2012
Cawsand to Rame Head

From Cawsand to Rame Head and back. Scooby pulled like a bxxxxxd much of the way especially when trying to say hello to the horses by the hermits cottage on Rame Head.

25 Nov 2012
Fort Picklecombe to Cawsand

Wet. Very wet. Amazingly managed to avoid the rain on this walk to one of the 2 pubs in CawsandKingsand that hadnt been flooded overnight. Excellent fish soup at the Rising Sun.

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