To Land’s End… and beyond!
August 27, 2009 by Bird
Filed under Blog, On My Travels, Summer
It’s been so busy here with orders and commissions, and as a result I know I’ve been neglectful of my blogging friends – taking an age to reply to comments and not keeping up with my blog reading. I wish I could say this slovenly state of affairs will improve but in fact they’ll be taking a nosedive as of tomorrow – because I’m going away for three weeks and will have absolutely no internet access in that time. I can’t deny it, I’m thrilled skinny!
First off R and I will be going to Cornwall, camping near St Just on the Land’s End Peninsula. There are many rare wild flowers and insects to be found in the area as well as some great walking and beaches as good as you’ll find anywhere.
After a couple of days exploring this lovely place we’ll be catching the Scillonian III from Penzance to The Isles of Scilly (pronounced “silly”) where we’ll be camping on the beautiful Island of St Agnes, by far and away my favourite of these enchanted islands. A haunt of rare migratory birds (though we’ll be too early for most of those) and carpeted with wildflowers, St Agnes also has the best snorkelling and rockpooling I’ve ever done in the UK – here’s hoping that the sea will be calm and the water clear! And not least because that ferry journey is never anything less than rough… although it’s worth it for the sightings of dolphins, basking sharks and the heart stopping flight of hunting gannets. You can fly across to the islands, but watching dolphins play on the bow wave of the ship and rare birds gliding alongside it is a lot more fun.
So I’m dragging out the field guides, polishing up the binoculars and getting all nerdy at the thought of all that wildlife. I need to take a notebook too, because there will be a lot to remember. And a lot of shells to collect for jewellery making purposes. Oh, and there will be a lot of cream teas to eat, but that’s another story.
Then it’s back home on the ferry and the sleeper train – arriving in London at 7.00 am – and a day in which to unpack, do laundry and make a fancy dress astronaut costume, repack and then catch another train and another ferry to Bestival on the Isle Of Wight! I have to admit I’m a little bit daunted by that bit, but I’ve never failed to have fun at Bestival so it has got to be worth it.
For the Cornish part of my travels I might be able to Twitter, but as we get further from the mainland on the ferry journey to Scilly the phone signal will start to fade out and I probably won’t have any reception at all once we reach the islands. So it will be a genuine break for me – in a place where technology cannot follow. I can hardly wait.
PS:- It’s possible that if you leave comments after Friday morning they will not show up for a very long time, as I will not have a chance to moderate them. I do love geting comments though, so if you leave some for me anyway it will be a lovely thing for me to come home to.
Have a wonderfully awesome time! Good to take internet break now and then. I will have one for the next two weeks as..we will be in Yellowstone and the Tetons..not much connection out there for me.
So go…we will miss u on twitter..but look forward to your blog and tweets when u return.
Dawn, you are so right! And I would LOVE to got to Yellowstone, lucky you! Have to admit I don’t know of the Tetons – will have to google that… when I get back
I am really looking forward to your blogs and tweets then, and hopefully I’ll have pictures to share and a tale or two to tell myself. Ok, time to get off the computer for real, R wants his dinner and so do I!
Cornwall…wasn’t there a battle there or something? And St. Agnes…wasn’t there an eve there? Anyway, look like lovely places…great pics…
I am (yet again,) intensely jealous…have a great time! Congrats on all of the commissions & orders, too!
I have camped many times on Treen cliff near to Logans Rock and also at Sennen just around the corner from St Just, I love this part of the world as you already know.
You know I have never actually got to the Scilly isles, something I must do some time. I really hope you have a fantastic time and I am looking forward to the photo’s already
Cornish clotted cream! yum
We wish you marvelous adventures! It looks like there will be no lack of fun and excitement =)
Hey first things are first. Blogging will always be here, lol. Thanks for letting us know, but then look at me lol I am not any better on my visitations. BTW I love the first photo, I would love to have this view from my window. Anna
Oh, you’re on hols – yippee!! Sounds like you’ve got some delightful plans and if you get to do HALF of them, you’ll have blog-fodder for months to come! Can’t wait to see the posts that come of it all, but meanwhile, don’t lose the Vacay for the Blogging! Have a lovely time!!
…and I am getting hungry, lol. Nice pictures. Oh soon may be soon I will be able to travel again, thanks for sharing, btw how are you doing my friend. Anna
Have a fabulous holiday, I hope you truly relax. We had a break for a couple of weeks and the internet got on just fine without us!
Hello there Bird. By now you’re back from all your adventures and I’ll bet you had a lot of fun. All of the islands you visited sound beautiful and I’m wondering about the camping…is it “buggy”? There are so many mosquitos around here one’s likely to be eaten alive or carried off! It does sound like great fun, though. Looking forward to your photos! (And your “sweet” pic there has me wanting scones!)
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I can’t remember if I have already commented on this post, (I know I have read it before) it may be awaiting moderation or I may not have left a comment, apologies either way!
It sounds like you will be having some wonderful adventures in beautiful places…those photos are lovely.
The cream tea looks gorgeous
PS. I had to laugh, the word verification is ‘long-term tromp’, quite fitting for your prolonged travels I thought!
Hi Bird ~ It’s now October (nearly November) and I’m a none-smoker for around three months….where are you? Did you eat Cream Teas till you exploaded? Or did you launch into outer-space from Bestival? Who knows?
Love
Henry
Wow everyone, I’ve been away for over two months which was not my intention, but sometimes life makes your decisions for you! Thank you so much for all the encouraging comments everybody left and apologies for not replying to them all individually as I always do – I’m keen to get back online and visit you all on your blogs so I’ll say hello there. I hope to sort through my island adventure pictures and tell you the stories that go with them, and also catch up with what is happening right now. After such a long break in writing I hope there will still be people interested in reading… I guess I’m about to find out.