Walk • Trek • Travel
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Fowey to Polperro
Fowey to Polperro

Thursday 22 March 2012

This was day two of my little adventure and already I knew I was not going to be as lucky as I had been yesterday. I walked from my accommodation up to the bus station in St Austell and caught the bus back to Fowey. As I sat on the bus I could see the dark clouds forming above and by the time the bus had reached Fowey a light drizzle filled the air.
I made my way over to the Ferry Terminal just in time to see the Polruan Ferry arrive. I jumped aboard and within a few minutes we were crossing the wide Fowey estuary and as we did so I kept an eye out for the Matthew Replica that I had seen the day before but it was nowhere to be seen.
I disembarked the ferry at Polruan and as I did so I noticed that the Matthew was now on dry land. It had been hauled up a large ramp into a shipyard so I wandered over as close as I could and tried to take a quick photo.
I made my way through the narrow streets of Polruan looking at the tiny cottages and trying to imagine what the village would have been like a hundred years ago and before long I found myself outside of the Coastguard Station with a grey and dreary view over to Pencarrow Head.
The path to Polperro was easy enough with only one or two steep climbs at West Coombe and East Coombe and 4 hours after setting out I was rounding the final corner and looking down on to the harbour at Polperro which was almost deserted.
I walked up through the village to the bus stop and caught a small community bus to West Looe and then walked across the bridge to East Looe and the train station to catch a train home.
I have been to Polperro and Looe many times before over the years and in the summer sun they are both fantastic places to visit with good sections of Coast Path. Unfortunately, after four hours of walking in a windy drizzle, I was just pleased to complete the sections that I had missed out previously and start making my way back home.

Distance

SWCP – 7 Miles
Extra – 5 Miles
Polruan Ferry
Polruan from the Water
Matthew – Replica of John Cabot’s Ship
Pencarrow Head
Daymark on Lizzen Cliff above Broad Cove
Polperro from the Cliff
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