After Land's End I encountered more stunning coastal scenery...
I clambered down to narrow coves harbouring tiny fishing communities...
The rock here is granite, which produces some amazing, frost-shattered formations...
This plaque is a sober reminder of how dangerous the Cornish coastline can be. Many a ship has foundered on its jagged rocks in the middle of a raging storm...
The weather was slowly deteriorating. After a wet and windy Penzance I traced the western edge of the Lizard Peninsula, rounded Lizard Point (the most southerly point of England), and headed roughly north east, through picturesque fishing villages and across drowned river estuaries - called rias - towards Falmouth.
This is Cadgwith. The last time I was there, many years ago, I passed the actress Jenny Agutter in the street. (Remember the film The Railway Children?) I think she owns a cottage close by...
The Lizard is a very special part of England - remote, beautiful, sparsely populated and completely unspoilt. In fact, it was my favourite part of the whole coastal path. This is the area where you find the mineral serpentine, and for days I saw it veining the rocks under my feet, glistening green and red, polished by the passage of a million walking boots...
