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.