St Ives Harbour
The weather today, as you’ll see from the images, wasn’t great – grey with slight rain most of the morning. There was a bit of sunshine at about noon, but it didn’t last. In fact the weather was why I had chosen this destination – it promised to be indoors.
I got to Marazion (the village opposite the Mount) by bus – I bought a 1 Day All-destinations ticket on First Kernow buses for £12. I don’t know if I got my money’s worth or not, but it saved some hassle.
Having arrived at Marazion the next task was to get over to the Mount, and this turned to be a bit tricky at that time. The tide was flowing and the causeway was about to become unusable – indeed, it was already awash but some brave (or foolish) souls were still walking across it. Once the causeway was flooded there were boats which, for a fee, would take visitors over. However, although the water was deep enough to cover the causeway it wasn’t yet deep enough to float these boats – or at least, not enough to get them over a sandbar near the mainland shore. The boat I was in hit it quite firmly, the boatman adjusted is controls and waggled the tiller, and we were quickly across. But that was after a delay of about 15 minutes when there were no boats getting across it. (more…)