Holiday - Day 2 Helford, Seals and Glendurgan

Saturday 9 April started brightly with the sun shining, so we drove down narrow winding lanes to Helford.

We walked along the South West Coast Path from the car park above Helford  following the estuary as far as Ponsence Cove.  There was a perfusion of wild garlic  along the path as well as primroses, violets and other spring flowers.  The primroses even grew on the cliffs! 

There was one field of daffodils that came down to the path.  From the photo you can see there were the occasional daffodil out as well.

From the path we could look across to Helford Passage on the other side of the river and see the boats moored further up the river.

We then drove on to Gweek to the Seal Sanctuary.  This was a bit disappointing.  It seemed small with small  pools.  It was interesting to watch the seals, penguins and otters playing and we particularly enjoyed watching the common seals as we ate our lunch.

Sea lions

Common seals that entertained us while we ate our lunch.

Seal in nursery convalescent pool

From Gweek we moved on to Glendurgan Gardens (NT).

This garden is in 3 valleys each winding their way down to a beach on the River Helford.  It was a tightly pack garden full of rhododendrums, azelias and other spring flowers, like primroses and bluebells.

For our evening meal we bought fish and chips at Lizard and drove down to Kyance Cove to eat them looking out to sea.  Unfortunately it was so windy that we did not walk far along the coast.

To be continued