The law in the UK does not permit a bus driver to do a stretch longer than 6 days without a day off and since our tour is 7 days long, we have today off the road to give our driver, Peter, a break. After a string of early rising it was rather nice to have a gentle start to the day and after a leisurely breakfast we had a wander around the town and then caught the 10:50 am ferry to the next port down the coast.
This was a forty minute trip and we shared the voyage with some friends we have made on the trip, Tony and Margaret from Kiama Downs. The Port of Mevagissey is not as flash as Fowey and is still a working fishing port which brings a sort of industrial grime combined with a definite fishy smell.
Still there were lots of holiday makers around and we had good fun exploring the narrow alleyways that pass for roads in this neck of the woods.
We each had an excellent Cornish Pastie for lunch which we ate down on the Quayside keeping a watchful eye out for marauding seagulls. The seagulls here are considerably larger than we have at home and we had been warned of their aggressive nature.
We saw a demonstration of this on the Quay . We were having coffee in a shop and a little boy and his dad were fishing and eating their lunch sitting on the edge of the Quay nearby. The father went into the shop to get a coffee and when he left, a flock of gulls just assaulted his little kid. Their noise and ferocity was quite frightening. By the time the dad got back to his child, their lunch was largely gone.
Having exhausted the delights of Mevagissey, we caught the ferry back to Fowey which I have decided just has to be the best spot on the coast – the Noosa Heads of Cornwall if you will. Here is a shot of our hotel as seen from the Ferry.
We wandered into Fowey for dinner which we ate outdoors by the water looking out at the yachts and the green hills behind. Here is a picture that Jeanette took of me there.
After dinner we watched the performance of a choir of British Legion members singing sea shanties and folk songs. Then back to our beautiful hotel for coffee on the deck while we watched the lights fade over the harbour.
Hardys’ Travels 