Date: Monday 18th March 2013
Route: Circular route from Portreath
Distance: 4 miles
Another walk from the AA's 1001 Walks, starting and ending in the village of Portreath on the north coast of Cornwall, complete with large sandy beach, rock pools and caves to poke around in.
This walk offers a nice combination of coastal path and woodland walking and proved to be a good short walk for a day of sunshine and showers. The walk begins by following the coastal path around the headland, past some pretty luxurious properties (extreme garden furniture envy!), then up onto the wild and woolly weather of the cliff tops.
After the usual combination of heart-stoppingly steep cliffs, a well-trodden and easy path, bright blue seas and wheeling seabirds, the path heads inland and into the car park of Tehidy Country Park, with many woodland paths and a particularly high Labrador count. I suspect that later in spring the forest trails will be accompanied by carpets of bluebells and rhododendra but the for the time being it's more about daffodils and wild garlic.
The final stretch of the walk sees the wood thinning out alongside a busy golf course, then passing a farm before entering more woodland above Portreath before coming back down to sea level. Recommended, if not the most remarkable of walks.
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