The postcard this week was taken at Porthcothan Bay. Summer had finally arrived (better late than never) and it was very sunny and extremely hot. I decided to walk one of my favourite stretches of coastpath, from Mawgan Porth to Porthcothan.

I started at Bedruthan Steps fairly early and the tide was high, but as the walk takes a few hours I knew that I would arrive at Porthcothan Bay when the tide was going out, and by the time that I returned to Bedruthan Steps there would be plenty of beach exposed. I stopped for lunch on the shoreline at Porth Mear, and the sea was lapping gently by my feet. It is days like these that make me realise how lucky I am to be in Cornwall!

Andrew Trenoweth 11th September 2009.