Praa Sands is a beach about one and a half miles long on the south coast, between Porthleven and Marazion. I stayed there in a caravan with three of my four children back in 1991. We walked miles along the coastal footpath as I didn’t drive then and bus fares were very expensive. I was the same age then as the son, who is staying with me, is now. Oh, how I wish I was that fit still. Nowadays walking is still enjoyable, but the aches and pains in the joints afterwards is not.
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Not unlike where we’ve been walking here. And oh yes, the aches and pains!
The beaches down here are the closest to those in Australia or South Africa, though some can be challenging to access.
A couple of mine I’ll never be attempting – unless I take up abseiling!
You’re just out of practise, lass! You’ll get better 🙂 🙂 Lovely skies!
Not today I won’t – it is tipping it down!
Luck of the draw! It’s dry here 🙂 🙂
Not great when you have two toddlers to entertain.
Send em up! I’m good at it 🙂 🙂
I’ll pass that on…
Like the threatening skies in this shot, Jude. I haven’t been to Praa Sands since the 1960s. Happy memories.
Best wishes, Pete. x
We should have heeded the warnings Pete, but we continued down to the Lizard where we got drenched!
It looks quite dramatic with those grey skies, Jude.
The day we got caught in the rain! Should have stayed here really.
Until I noticed the itty-bitty people on the beach, I didn’t appreciate exactly how huge the beach and the cliffs in the background really were!
There are quite a lot of rather dramatic cliffs around here! Most of them crumbling to the ground!
It seems that time and weather will wear down everything.
Including me!
The entire coast of Oregon was declared a state highway around 1908 and so you can walk forever on it. Even though it’s technically a highway, it really just ensured perpetual public access.
That’s funny, calling it a state highway. Can you actually drive along the beach then? I know in Australia there are some beaches that you can drive on. Not here. We tend to award National Park status to our public land, including coastlines.
There are a few places, where people are allowed to actually drive on the beach. At one such place my brother and I looked on in delight when a car got stuck in the sand and swept by the high tide. We knew a lot about why NOT to drive on the beach.
Ahh yes the aches and pains, I agree with Jo, it does get better, but then you have to do it regularly to maintain it – that’s the hard bit in winter, if you hate rain like I do!
Regularly is my problem. I’m a fair weather walker too.
What a lovely moody sky you captured! Looks like a great walk, weather permitting 🙂