Super STEEP WALK! LAMORNA COVE Cornwall - Stunning Coastal Walk
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- This week, join us on a fabulous 5 mile circular walk from Lamorna Cove to St Loy. Have you walked the this stretch of South West Coast Path?
We think it is one of the most interesting, and challenging walks with large boulders, a cute little lighthouse and several ups and downs! We were lucky to film this on a beautiful day in May. The clifftop was abundant with flora and fauna, bluebells, pink campion and onion flowers galore - it made my heart sing!
This walk is definitely a challenge but it takes you through some of the most stunning scenery in Cornwall, with a vibrant and curious history, we would thoroughly recommend it.
NB: If you plan to park in Lamorna Cove, the car park is managed by a private company using ANPR cameras that charge you from the moment you enter the car park.
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We are Sarah and Andrew and we film our walks around Cornwall and publish on CZcams, usually weekly. Sometimes we stay in accommodation in Cornwall and upload our vlog. Sarah is fascinated by sea glass and likes to collect it so there may be the occasional sea glass video too. The channel is a hobby and we both have normal day jobs!
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I can just hear Pepper in "Annie", saying "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness"
Thank you for your dedication.
I was still at school when the SB went down, although I've lived up north since 1990 it still hits home
A WONDERMENT ~~~~~~ AS ALWAYS.
Thank you! Sarah :)
Tremendous! Not for the faint hearted as I found out in 1997 when I could do these sort of walks! Watching you reminded me of how difficult that ''walk'' actually is! We went in search of Derek Tangye's old cottage Minack as I was a big fan of his books. It was empty & poignant when we got there as he had passed away 9 months earlier. Someone else was there who'd also been in search of the cottage but come by car. I was never more pleased than to accept an offer of a lift back to Lamorna from them! Moderate it is NOT!😃 We obviously didn't get as far as Loy Cove though, so it was fab to see the rest of the walk along. It is a stunning piece of Cornish coastline. Thank you for taking me back to the places that I love but cannot get to anymore. J x
Yes! A tremendous walk, we found it challenging but do-able! And the views made up for it!! Sarah :)
This was a super video but how you both managed this walk I will never know- boulders and masses of them & mud - but, the views were to die for - beautifully edited and a most interesting video - worthy of any mainstream programme on the television. Very well done. excellent.
Hi Sarah and Andrew.
My wife and I walked from Mousehole to Lamorna on our honeymoon in 1982, we got sun burnt on our left side only. We had a lovely pub lunch in the Wink . We could not face the walk back to Mousehole so took the bus to Penzance. Your grading of this walk as moderate would be right if your next walk was up Everest. Love watching you every Friday.
I love coastal walks . Last Sunday me and my husband did a coastal walk from Watttomolla to Big Marley beach in Australia . It was 11 km and gorgeous. Your coastal walk in Lamona is lovely .
When we visited Cornwall about 6 years ago. We stopped to see The Merry Maidens standing stones. It was a warm, very misty day. We got a great photo with a lot of atmosphere.
Great walk Guys.
Have you never thought of taking a stick?
Not suggesting that you are getting old here, just from my experience a 'third leg makes a big difference when vaulting boggy land or creeks and also traversing boulders.
I use a Shepherds crook style of stick, with a horn handle shaped as a thistle (bought in Scotland.
Its also great for pushing brambles and 'Tingers' to one side from your legs and for pushing yourself up steep hills.
Well, a stick would be nice but with cameras, water, books, dog leads, snacks, it would just be another thing to carry!! Maybe when we stop filming for the channel, we will have a free hand! Nice thought though, Sarah :)
We walked from Treen to Lamorna last weekend and I'd definitely agree it's more hard going than moderate! The highlight was the hysterical laughter we had whilst navigating the muddy part with our small dog. 😂
This is a lovely walk with so much different to see. And thank you for teaching me how to pronounce Tater Du. I never knew the proper pronounciation 😊 Your bluebells are so beautiful. They are the luxury version of our more modest, but still pretty ones 🥰 The lifeboat disaster was really horrible and I have read that every year on the 19th of December, the Christmas lights in Mousehole are dimmed between 8 and 9pm in memory of the people who lost their lives. Such a terrible loss for a small village. Thank you for sharing this beautiful walk 🥰 Torunn.
I agree. Nowadays we walk in the evenings during bluebell season, from the campsite car Park to St Loy via the wood - a lovely walk. Or yes, park at the Merry Maidens' pull in 🌞 great channel, keep up the great work
What a beautiful walk, loved it! Thankyou 😊
First off, that's a gorgeous hike! I'd do that hike in a heartbeat. It looks fairly moderate except for that crazy steep bit over the boulders. But worth it for those lovely views! :)
Hi, thanks for featuring the stone circle and tomb! I'd love to see them one day. Also, I always watch to the end of your videos! I definitely couldn't have done this walk. 😱
Moderate…my ar$e!!!
Thanks for another stunning walk; I love how you research the area you visit, and give us some interesting facts, local history, geography etc, and also useful information regarding the walk itself, as obviously this one wouldn’t be suitable for everyone, so it’s best to know beforehand.
My husband is waiting for a hip replacement, so we’ll give this one a go once he’s had the op and recovered!
Lovely walk today. Lived the story on the Merry Maidens. The beach is beautiful. Thanks again for your walk this week.
This is a stunning walk and one of the least populated and most beautiful parts of the South West Way
Nearly fell off the cliff once on that stretch out of Lamorna. I dont think id ever walk it again 😅
Wow! I don’t blame you! Stay safe! Sarah :)
Really enjoyed this weeks walk, I hope you have both recovered but it was worth it, bringing us such beautiful vistas, thank you Sarah & Andrewxx
Wow talk about challenging! Another great video.
Fabulous walk again Sarah and Andrew.. always entertaining, fun and informative and well done for doing that "MODERATE" walk 😜. Dread to think what difficult is.. perhaps ropes and buckles and crampons eh 😂. What stunning views though and pretty glens... gorgeous 👌💖🥰😘
Andrew- A piggyback for Sarah over the boggy bits perhaps. Great video.Thanks
Oh gosh! Poor Andrew!!! Lol! 😂🤣😂
Remember this beautiful area when I walked The South West Coast Path last summer. I remember it to be strenuous, walked from Porthcurno to Penzance that day😅
Wow! That’s quite a long stretch to cover in a day! Sarah :)
Moderate? I'd say challenging in places, and this is on the official south west coat path. However, I agree that the views are stunning, and the streamside walk back to the car quite idyllic. It's good that the the Solomon Brown memorial is signposted from the path as it looks that it could be easily missed. A place for reflection on the power of nature.
A wonderful walk, we thoroughly enjoyed it, definitely knew we had been walking afterwards!! Sarah :)
Amazing history surrounding the Merry Maiden’s Standing Stones, and Lamorna Cove, love the story of ‘Lamorna Wink’ the walk is very picturesque but the stunning coast line looked treacherous to navigate, well done 👏 for giving it a go and eventually reaching the road next to the burial chamber, a very good question Andrew 😂 only you could have thought of it, although I did think it was a bit of bad planning when they built the road 😮 thanks for the information on the Parking charges that I did pass on last week to my son who takes his family every June to beautiful Cornwall and plans for every eventuality including a boot full of coins 😅
Looking at the comments it’s revealed just how many such car parks have popped up in the last few years, such a blight on people’s holidays, and embarrassing for locals that, frankly, don’t benefit in any way. Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails that’s true Sarah when we visited Cornwall when the children were young I can’t remember having parking problems and never any scammers, how times have changed! like you say it doesn’t benefit the community, it just breeds animosity, and drives people away!
Great video, thanks for sharing. I think this was one of your best videos cum walks. I love the way you combine historic accounts with your walks in your videos. Maybe you found the walk a bit tough, but sometimes it's the tough ones that are the most rewarding. Keep it up.
A wonderful walk the pictures of the bays with the flowers and the sea just gorgeous. We also have parking spaces like in Lamorna in Germany, we park outside and walk a little further if possible. I make calendars for family and acquaintances in the video, the year should have 20 months so that the choice is not difficult. I would give the hike a 10/10 even if the trail is a bit muddy in between. I loved the jungle and the enchanted forests. Best regards, Gunter
Thank you for another wonderful walk ❤️
That looked lovely 😊
Great meeting you both today on the mount - looking forward to the vid. Tony
A lovely walk Sarah and Andrew Thank you. Interesting but also challenging for you, especially up to St Loy cove - Moderate My . . . . 😊! We've been around that area many times over the years although not to St Loy Cove that was really beautiful especially the wooded area behind. I remember walking down to Lamorna Cove from the main road. (no parking restrictions then!) The stream running alongside with masses of daffodils in bloom on the banks. Seeing the memorial stone marking that awful disaster was touching. I remember clearly the summer before that date in December 1981 we were down there in Penzance and the Solomon Brown was doing a display in the bay just off the bathing pool. Little did we know! I still have all the newspapers of that week which my aunt sent to me afterwards. ❤Thank you.
What a lovely memory, such a tragic event, Sarah :)
Thanks for another great video.
You’re welcome! Sarah:)
Wow, this walk is fabulous and May is a beautiful month. Love all the flowers and scenery. it does seem like a tough walk .. well done and as always thank you. 👏👍🙏💯🚶♀️🚶♀️
Always visit the Merry Maidens when in that part of Cornwall, found the burial chamber last month, didn’t realise how close it is to the Maidens, just 100 yards up the road. 👍
My friend Gary lost his life in the rescue attempt . He was from up country , and had left the East London suburbs for a better life a few years before . Gary was my age and would be 65 this year . R.I.P. Gary and the rest of the crew of the Solomon Browne . Oddly I lived and worked in the area briefly in the late 80s and visited the spot and now live in the East Coast port where the Union Star made an unscheduled visit on its fateful journey .
Definitely a good one for this time of year (except for the mud). I loved all of the flowers! The views are fantastic, but I'm not sure I could handle five miles of climbing and boulders. You really included some great history with this one. If you are still watching The Last Kingdom, the Saxon King AEthelstan shows up eventually. I'm sure there were plenty of "red fields" back in those days. I've been to Stonehenge, but found more of the feeling I expected from seeing ancient stones at the Rollright stones (or The King's Men) in Oxfordshire. My cousins who took us were living in Riseley, Berkshire at the time. Perhaps it was because that stone circle was in someone's field and we were the only ones there. When I first saw the stone with the depressions, it made me think of the Native American grinding stones we find in our area. That was a jam-packed walk! Hope you got a hot bath afterward!
Thanks for enduring this wonderful walk. This is why I am sitting on my sofa watching from Ohio. I would have loved to walk this in my 40s, but now in my 70s it is a bit much.
You would have been in good company! There were a couple of ladies in their 70s, they were doing well, taking their time and enjoying the challenge! Sarah :)
Well that's your exercise for the week. Whew! Snakes...what poisonous snakes do you have there? At the end at the burial, it looks like two green eyes looking at you in the cave above the bush on the left. 👀
Adders, venomous not poisonous but still a nasty sting! We avoid scrubland during breeding season, they get very protective of their nests! Sarah :)
Lamorna Cove is beautiful & walking the road to it is like being in a fairy glade. Apart from mooching around the coast path either side, sadly we couldn’t do the actual walk due to ‘knees’! I’m impressed you could do it, with no stick AND holding a camera 👌🏻 Love your videos so much; wish there was someone out there who could do the same for our home county of Somerset x
Thank you for doing this walk and posting it. Back in April I walked down from the Merry Maidens and paid my respects to the Memorial and the huge loss of both the Solomon Browne and the Union Star.
Wow it looks really nice but as tough as ole boots probably, just need to watch that the snakes dont bite you on the Arze ! 🙂👍🇬🇧
A stunning walk with amazing views over the most varied of terrain, love the maidens and standing stones. A classic CWT vid, informative entertaining and as always very well done,,,,,,Brian&Jane.
That was interesting! What a challenging walk 😥 but so beautiful. Cornwall is an amazing place and thankyou for sharing it with us. Luv it.
Just breath taking views and the amazing history! I love your old books to read from and comparing back then and now. Did you sketch and paint the landscape?
I was itching to get my brushes out but life got in the way this week! Fabulous spot! Sarah :)
Just completed this walk after seeing your video. It was a relief to get past all the muddy parts. I think that Ultra Marathon that went from Lizard Point to Lands End yesterday didn't help; it really churned up all that mud. Excellent walk though and some beautiful views.
Best start into Friday: another lovely 'meeting' with you 🙋🏼♀️
Thank you! Sarah :)
I have heard that quite few maidens get stoned when dancing on a Sunday! Yet another great walk Sarah, only 4 weeks and we will be back in St Columb.
Very funny! 😂 Sarah :)
Done this several times just the other day 30th of April to see the bluebells in St Loy woods lovely That muddy spot tricky 👎coast path tricky too but stunningly beautiful 👌I think the memorial stone has sixteen birds on it one for each sole lost😢The circular walk from St Loy to Penberth worth doing Your video great 👍 10
Ahhh, how lovely and thanks for the additional info on the memorial, Penberth to st Loy is definitely on our list! Sarah :)
Great walk and very interesting information. Cheers Bob
It’s lovey there. We camped at Boleigh farm and has a swim at Lamorna cove, just perfect. Living in Cornwall there’s always new places to explore. Enjoying your videos. Thank you 🙏 ❤
You’re welcome! Sarah :)
Thank you for taking the time to reply immediately and I feel suitably reprimanded. I had no idea that the ad revenue barely covered the cost of fuel - I thought it was much more significant. I shall continue to watch your highly enjoyable videos and I will exercise more patience to see them through to the end. Sorry about my unpleasant jibe - I take it back. I thoroughly enjoyed Pendennis Castle, St. Michael's Mount and Tintagel.
Very interesting and informative video and of one of the most beautiful areas in Cornwall. Stunning!
I remember back in 1979 and it was my and my sisters second visit to Penzance. We decided to walk from Mousehole to Lamorna. It wasn’t planned and I was wearing two inch heeled shoes. Oh, the folly of youth (I was 23, my sister, 17) We walked back to PZ via the inland road. You can imagine how I felt on reaching our hotel. I could barely lift my feet up onto the kerbs. 😮😖
But I still remember the outstanding views and the glittering sea. I think we went a little beyond Lamorna Cove because I remember seeing Tatar Du lighthouse.
I have done that same walk a few times since………wearing much more sensible footwear. 😃👍😉
That’s hilarious!! So funny, mainly because I used to walk half a mile to work everyday in high heels! Wouldn’t do it now! Sarah :D
Great video! Such fun… but yeah your walks are getting challenging …congratulations your almost at 17k subs…i remember i started watching you at 3k or so now i can see the journey…and the walkings have been amazing … thank you for all you two do! Greetings…. Ana🎉💐
Ha! Ha! Gosh has it been that long!! As I type we need 31 more subs to reach 17k! So hopefully in the next day or so, woohoo!! Sarah :)
Nice.
Hi Sarah and Andrew. I love the history at the beginning of your walk must admit I prefer the romantic version of it. I enjoyed the views of the coast and the woodland not forgetting the sound of the stream. I do agree with Andrew if that is moderate what do they call hard. Please do one next week to show us. As I would find today's one hard plus you need could balance walking over those rocks.
The one they rate as hard is the rocky valley at Boscastle, which we did a couple of years ago! Sarah :)
Hello PARDS I've been considering doing that one myself but because we do drone flights I think I'll do a walk and a drone flight around that coastal bit where all the rocks are would be nice to meet up at some stage in the future after all we are all CORNISH folk
Better get lots of rest before this walk,lovely scenery well worth the expended energy,well done…Shade.
Stunning walk! Sarah :)
Why does anyone need to go abroad when we have such wonderful places to visit right here.
Having said that, I want to visit Mexico 😂😂
My partner bought me a copy in the early 90s which we still have,now too poorly to walk very far because of copd.
Maybe the person who rates the difficulty is ex military or a rock climber. 😉
Yes! Can you tell we aren’t in the army 😂🥲🤣 Sarah :)
Merry Maiden = MM = 33
I enjoy your videos very much. They are well-researched and explained. I like your relaxed and friendly banter and you bring back memories of trips I made to Cornwall up to 40 years ago, e.g. the Merry Maidens and the Two Pipers.
You ask why your viewership tends to drop off before the end of your video. I have watched several of your videos and I seldom hold out to the end - and I'll tell you exactly why. You have a very high number of advert breaks and I become weary of the constant interruptions. If you want to hold our attention to the end, you should allow us to focus on the excellent content, with less distractions along the way - but then I suppose it is a question of money, the "Lamorna Cove syndrome" perhaps.
Hi Ken, thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately there has to be an element of fairness with this.
As you say, you feel weary with the add breaks which interrupt your viewing which is unfair to you, (however most mid role adverts are short or skipable).
But how can you really complain when the content you watch is provided to you completely free of charge?
The add revenue we receive from CZcams is very small, if we are lucky it might just cover our fuel cost. This video took about 15 hours of time to research, edit and publish. This is probably why a lot of small CZcamsrs who try to put out regular well researched content eventually give up because it is just too difficult, time consuming and unviable.
I feel your ‘Lamorna Cove syndrome’ jibe is therefore churlish and hurtful.
Andrew
I know people have probably asked this 100 times, but what cameras are you currently using?
sorry didn't come up with my name (Stephanie) xx