"Doing" Fowey again

After the couple of trips, we decided that the forecast was fine enough for us to spend a day relaxing (?) and enjoying the Fowey area before we headed up to the Solent. What does enjoying the Fowey area mean? Well, you just have to do the Hall Walk:

Have a look at National Trust website for more information. 4 miles of lovely woodland and waterside walk that involves using the two ferries across the harbour too. We took the Bodinnick ferry across to the eastern side, another antique ferry that must be a complete pig to handle in windy, high current conditions:

Walking high up alongside the water, you get some lovely views of the harbour area:

You can work out how steep the climb up to the viewpoint is - we, naturally, started at sea level. Not for the faint hearted or people trained to walk in Holland......  You get to see Polruan (on the left of this picture, the east side of the water) and Fowey itself in all their glory. Well, not really as it was a bit misty but you get the idea:

As you approach the end of Pont Pill (see the map above), there is one of those quintessentially English spots. Old stone cottages, a little wooden bridge across the water and people just chilling there:

As we wandered into Polruan, we found the ideal house for Patrick:

Having hoped that we could finally palm him off on someone, we were most disappointed to find no one in. Life is so unfair....There was no time to pop back later on and so the errant penguin is still on board. For now.

Polruan is now very touristy with lots of houses in the holiday rental market. The little beach and ferry pier is still quaint though:

Right next to it is the old established Toms boatyard, and it looks like some poor people have a rusty old trawler in their front gardens:

What was our reward for all this activity (the walk including 673 feet up and then down again)? Lunch at the Ship pub which we frequented last year and enjoyed once more - and took advantage of the WiFi as there was a totally feeble O2 and EE data connection.

The result was two full and happy tummies and a weather forecast that suggested moving towards the Solent tomorrow afternoon / overnight made sense. So we might just do that.