Day 52- Treyarnon to Porth
Actual distance 17.22km or 10.7 miles (or the length of 8,922.3 short surf boards)
Total Ascent 521.16m (or the height of 269.3 VW Transporters)
Having done a sneaky extra walk yesterday, we were able to treat ourselves to a lie-in this morning, resorting in us having to wake up some of the younger team members after 9am! However, we quickly realised we had totally forgotten to think about breakfast, and had no milk or bread meaning everyone had to resort to using Jennies oat milk on their cereal!
Emma and Niall arrived with some food shopping, so the core team, Abi and Moby (the dog) left the support team making lunch and headed back off to Treyarnon. We had promised the children a morning on the beach, but it was definitely not beach weather so we had a change of plan and decided to continue on our journey instead.
We headed off along the coastal path through persistent wet drizzle. The path was clearly signed and very easy to follow even with rain-covered glasses on! The views along the coast wavered from being hidden by the wet mist, and being utterly stunning. The path turned off the immediate coast and headed through National Trust land where we found a random abandoned boat far too far away from any water.
After about 10km we reached Mawgan Porth where Dan and Sarah met us with lunch. We sheltered in the camper van to eat and dry off a little. Feeling slightly drier we headed back along the coastal path for a further 7.5km. As we approached Porth we were joined by all of our support team for the last 1.5km which was really lovely. We wandered down into the village and headed to a pub on the beach right next to our finishing point. We headed in for a drink whilst the kids headed to the beach to play.
Excitingly we have reached Porth a full 24 hours ahead of schedule! We have therefore promised the kids a beach morning tomorrow when the weather is due to be nice which they are very much looking forward to!
Back at Karen and Bryan’s the team all pulled together to cook a sweet potato and chicken curry. We then settled into an evening of entertainment courtesy of the fantastic joke, riddle and game bag that our Cubs gave us before we left for this journey – a treat we have dipped in and out of throughout the last 52 days!
