St. Mawes

The weather and the light are very freaky today - intermittent gale force winds, sleet, hail and rain - all mixed with sun, blue skies (and rainbows, of course). By the time there is anything like settled light, the shingle beach here has pretty well disappeared under the rising tide. When you arrive here, it is not difficult to see why St. Mawes is home to several large, private seaside homes scattered around this coastline and possibly one of the finest country hotels in the UK - it is far from the madding crowd across the water, has lots of good deep-water yacht moorings, and after a day's sailing you can just watch the stupendous views of the Carrick Roads at sunset, when for some strange reason the wind and water here always seem to still...