Sennen Cove to Porthcurno

20th July 2012

 

Distance	Time		Elevation in meters
Km	Elapsed Hrs-Mins	Moving Hrs-Mins	Gain	Loss	Min	Max
10.5	3H00		737	743

 

The starting point, the car park at Sennen Cove Harbour

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The climb to the observation point above Sennen Cove, on Pedn-men-du cliffs

Pedn-men-du cliffs at Sennen are popular with climbers

 

Looking along the coast towards Land's End from Sennen Cove Observatino point.

Looking back over Sennen Cove. From the observation point three huge basking sharks could
be seen in the shallow waters below

Huge basking shark

The path towards Land's End

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Land's End in the distance

Longships Lighthouse

 

Longships is the name given to a group of rocks situated 1.25 miles to the west of Land's End.The original Longships Lighthouse was built in 1795 on the highest point of the largest rock and was replaced with a new lighthouse in December 1873. Since 1988, the lighthouse has beenautomated. Its light is 10 seconds bright followed by 10 seconds dark, and has a range of 19 miles.

 

The less attractive side of Land's End.... the hotel and amusement park

An old lifeboat on display at Land's End

The path leading away from Land's End

Rock formation "Enys Dodnan" in the forground, with "Armed Knight" behind

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Gwennap Head in the distance

 

 

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Pendower Cove

 

Pendower Cliffs

Beacon near Hella Point

As you approach the headland, and the seas are rough you may hear an eerie moaning sound coming from off-shore.This noise is created as a warning to shipping by water rising and falling through a tube in the buoy that marks the hazardous offshore reefs known as the Runnel Stone, on which many ships have been wrecked. Additional warnings are given by a bell and flashing light on the buoy, and the two cone shaped navigation markers (Day marks) on the headland. If the view from a boat of the inland (black and white) marker is completely obscured by the more seaward (red) marker, then the boat would be bang on top of the Runnel Stone, and so obviously skippers aim to keep the two beacons well apart.

 

 

Looking down to Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra

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Looking back towards Porthgwarra, Hella Point and Gwennap Head