Porth

Sunday
Porth is on the north coast, and is one of the “Nine Newquay beaches” for reasons I don’t quite understand. It is easy to miss on the road from Newquay - you’ve gone past it before you realise there is even a beach. It is narrow, but stretches out more than half a mile to the water at low water. The nice thing then is all the rocks and tidal pools, especially on the right side. Looking out to sea, your main view is of the Newquay headland, until you reach almost to the water’s edge when the view opens out. Surfers use this beach, but on a sunday afternoon dozens of families are out with their kids and dogs. A good beach for a welly walk in winter, because of the shallow stream on the right as well as the slippery tidal rock pools. Porth Island, a large grass-covered rock which flanks it just past the stream, is cut off from the mainland at high water except for a wooden bridge; it too is a lovely walk too - guaranteed to clear your head when the off-shore wind is brisk.
(I took my photos with a phone camera in landscape format, but somehow some of the info seems to have got "lost", I'm not sure how. Only one application i know has actually managed to retrieve the missing info.)