Life's a beach!

You can't get much more bluer than this!

Yes I know another blog about Cornwall, but why not? Cornwall is always full of surprises: from food (The famous Rick Steins fish and chips) to coastal walks to long sandy beaches. Cornwall has it all. Sun, sea and sand! This is about the beautiful Cornish beaches that come in different shapes and sizes! You can discover them by just walking along the cliffs, every corner you turn awaits another cove or bay! All of them are stunning in there own special way! Yellow soft sands and crystal turquoise shallows that fade into the deep inky depths of the sea, that stretch out into the horizon! The salty sea breeze is beautiful and refreshing. The colours vary from the rich greens of the cliff tops to the sun kissed yellow sands; from the bright coloured flowers that sway in the breeze to the shades of blue that create a captivating postcard picture of the sea! Why fly away to a sunny place when you get the same here? The coast of Cornwall, the brilliant beaches and the spectacular sea's...

                                    

The life boat station at Mother Ivey's Bay!

Mother Ivey's Bay is one of my favourite beaches, it's just a small walk around the corner from Harlyn Bay. It's not a big beach, it's a small and mostly quite bay that looks out to the life boat station. The sand is unspoilt by litter and other types of rubbish and only a few people stop on that beach meanwhile the rest just walk on, round to the next. The sea is calm and the waves are small which is ideal for swimmers but not for boarders, plus  there's no life guards patrolling the bay. Over all this cute little cove is near the top of my list of beaches that I love in Cornwall!

As you walk from Mother Ivey's Bay
to Constantine Bay, this is the view! 

This is the rocks on one side of

Constantine Bay!

Walking through the over grown grass of the cliffs, that shape the beaches of Cornwall, the next beach is Constantine Bay. It's link to a small beach called Booby's Bay. Yes it's a funny name I laughed the first time I heard it too! However dividing the two beaches is rocks that create rock pools that look like mini lagoons when the sun is shining. Constantine Bay is a long beach and either side there's rocks that shield the bay. One thing about Constantine Bay is that even when it's sunny and there's no wind, the waves are massive and they come from different directions and if you're boarding you don't know whether to take the wave, go over it or go under it. Either way you have to quickly decide about what you're going to do or the wave will take you under i self and pull you back with it! It's quite scary when a wave is suddenly standing over you. A wave of panic seems to wash over you at that slight second, even though it seems like ages before the wave breaks! It certainly not a good idea for swimmers to go out or the current would just drag you out! The life guides definitely keep an eye out for you here. If you're a tad out of the flags you'll know about it! The sand dunes shelters you from the wind and makes a boundary between you and the golf course that is behind you. You then walk around the next cliff bend and another surprise awaits...

Constantine Bay!

                                    

Treyarnon! This was a funny looking beach, it wasn't long as a normal beach which stretches out for miles, but it was long as in more vertical, so you had a lot of beach to walk down before you got to the sea, maybe it was because the tide was out! Who knows? It was a quirky beach anyway. It was sheltered by cliffs and rocks, one rock pool was big enough and deep enough (well for a child anyway) to swim in. This rock pool too look like a mini lagoon. The water was a lovely greeny blue colour when the sun was out. The sun made everything brighter especially the sea! All these beaches are special however my favourite beach, and it will always be my favourite, is Harlyn Bay!



Treyarnon Beach!



Treyarnon beach with the rock pool in view!



Harlyn Bay! It's a bit cloudy!

Harlyn Bay! The one place that is special and perfect to me. I don't need to travel far to get blue sea's and yellow sands, I don't need to go to exotic places to make me feel like I've been on holiday to a special place! Harlyn Bay is my special place, rain or shine it's still a favourite of mine! It can be a place to relax or escape to or a place of discovery or even a place where you can release all of your energy. With a long stretch of beach that is golden from the sea that suddenly turns into a white soft blanket between your toes and the sea which creates perfect waves for surfers and swimmers; that shimmers in the sunlight! The sea transforms with the weather, if it's sunny and hot the sea will be a brilliant bright blue and calm, however when the weather comes in from the horizon and its heavy rain and wind, the sea will suddenly turn rough and the waves would fiercely crash into the cliffs! Hot or cold; sunny or wet either way Harlyn Bay is number one! It's a special place and it always will be...

Harlyn Bay from a different angle! It's sunny!