The perfect storm

Posted on June 26, 2007
Filed Under - leisure |

When it’s windy and rainy in the city, all you want to do is stay inside and have a nice cup of tea. But here in Porth, it’s way more exciting to be out on the headland watching the sea churn and the waves dash against the rocks! If this is what it is like in summer, lord knows what exhilaration awaits in the winter.

Porth has a long headland stretching out into the sea. About halfway down, the sea has managed to carve a channel through the headland, creating an island. There’s a wooden footbridge between the mainland and this island so it is easily fordable. When the sea is rough, a lot of foam is created and it all collects in this narrow channel, frothing like porridge that’s been in the microwave for a bit too long. You can see it in this picture, which I took standing on the footbridge. The porridge is glooping down to Porth beach through the gap in the rocks. Lovely! You get showered with foam as well. You could have your very own foam party down there. Bit cold, though.

From the headland, you can see the whole of Newquay bay to the south and Watergate bay and beyond to the north. Out on the tip you get to see the angry sea up close. But even with all that white water, it is still amazing shades of blue and turquoise.

Wrapped up from the elements, I really enjoyed myself. I was so excited I scampered up the headland like a child. I was just thinking ‘this is so cool’ and I meant the sea and the storm but I also meant the fact that I was living right there next to it. I took a picture of Porth (below), looking back from the headland. I live over to the left hand side, near the fields. I am still unfeasibly startled by the concept of having land about that nobody has built on. Perhaps in a few decades’ time, I really will be able to say, “I remember when this was all fields….”

Stumble it!

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