{"id":4470,"date":"2024-09-16T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=4470"},"modified":"2024-09-17T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:52:41","slug":"isles-of-scilly-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/isles-of-scilly\/isles-of-scilly-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Isles of Scilly – 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

St. Mary’s – 17th September 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A late start because I didn’t get here until nearly one o’clock but no matter, heading anticlockwise around the island so that I can avoid all the peeps doing it the recommended way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A shot of Penzance harbour. It’s been forty years since I was here – sigh!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The harbour at Hugh Town, St. Mary’s. The ferry is across the way. Wasn’t bouncy at all, bloody stupid old women.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Porthmellon Beach and I’m stopping for coffee already, no brekky or lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It should stay dry and sunny. Just realised that I’ve forgotten my hat! Stupid old goat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tresco and Bryher. Looks like I can’t get a boat tomorrow to Bryher so I’ll just go to Tresco and see if I can get a lift over at some point.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ancient village. Loads of stone stuff on the Scillys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The stone pyramids (not man made).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely firm track between the ferns for a bit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Might as well have a look since it’s on the way. St. Martin’s over the channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There ya go some gen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lower tomb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Upper tomb. You do wonder about who these people were.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More gen. I’m trying to do all five main islands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As before somewhere in Wales, I think, a donation box in the middle of nowhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pelistry Beach. Some strange sea creature has dragged itself from the briny deep to terrorise the locals. All their footsteps running away from its weird three limbness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First name Silly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just had another coffee and imma buzzing. Too much on an empty stomach. I think that its an elephant sitting on its haunches with George Washington trapped under its trunk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Porth Hellick and the fickle finger of fate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reminds me of the Costa Brava, the path through the pines in the dappled sunlight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The wild Celtic sea off this south-eastern tip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Apparently the only traffic light on the island. It is flashing green but the shot doesn’t pick it up.

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I’ll just tiptoe past while they are busy elsewhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Porth Minick and about an hour to go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There it is, my ride back in a few days. Took off very fast in about a hundred metres seemed like.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The stone turtle is crawling out to dive off that natural board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I think the one on the right is the pope in his mitre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This one is like a sea creature. You can see how our ancestors thought these woven by the Gods and worth emulating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Proper recycling. A Gemini space capsule sent from the US of A and turned into a lighthouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’m loving all these weather carved granite outcrops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last one, I promise. I’ve got two frogs standing on their hind legs facing each other and kissing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old Town bay and just the fort to go after.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of these ducks is not like the others and one has come out and identified as a duck though she is fucking not a duck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the beach at Old Town.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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OK a dwarf door into the mountain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thankfully only a short tunnel and I’m out onto the battlements.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I doubt that those guns fit the place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leaving the gun emplacements behind at last.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can’t but hum the national anthem in honour of Cora and her feeling for the UJ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The town bell and I’m done.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

St Mary’s, very lovely and despite the crowds on the ferry and thronging the harbour, I met very few on my walk. Just pissed at all the LDN overloud fuckwits spoiling my hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St. Mary’s – 17th September 2024 A late start because I didn’t get here until nearly one o’clock but no matter, heading anticlockwise around the island so that I can avoid all the peeps doing it the recommended way. St Mary’s, very lovely and despite the crowds on the ferry and thronging the harbour, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4463,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4470\/revisions\/4532"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}