Pendogget Day 9 (Sunday) Into Darkness

The day started at 2:30am, this was not part of the plan, but we were both awake, the night was clear and not too cold, so we took a walk into darkness and into the garden to see the stars. One thing I had forgotten was how much light is given by the stars and how they seem to stand out from the sky. The haze of the Milky Way was visible, even though there are one or two street lamps on the road just 50-100 yards away.
As amazing as it was we were soon back in bed asleep, and soon wakened by the alarm.  On holiday, the ONLY day we have to get up is Sunday. Today we are to visit St Kew church (St James the Great at St Kew) for their all-age service.  It starts at 9:30. We arrive, in plenty of time, to the sound of the bells peeling. Just about everyone seems to be already there - a very small congregation (20ish) in quite a large church. We are greeted by a friendly ex-churchwarden, everything for the service is on the screen, it is quite different to anything I have seen before.  Some of the liturgy is familiar, some not.  They have a nice idea for tracking the progress of the service - the order of service is listed down the left-hand side of most of the slides and the current activity high lighted.

The ex-churchwarden has written a walk that starts from the church and returns there, it is all along single track roads, so there are some dangers, but we decide to give it a go.  Jo is standing on the top of the 'Epping Stocks' waiting for her horse to arrive.  These steps are a separately listed structure. Above are 19th Century pig houses, without the walk I would have been left wondering what they were.

We had lunch at the St Kew Inn.  The original building was built to house workers constructing the church, most of it was rebuilt as an Inn in the 19th Century.  The home to watch the F1 British GP.

After the race, we drove to Rock and walked along the coastal path to Daymer bay. Instead of following the route described by the walk, we turned toward the beach and walked back that way.  We were planning to stay and see the sunset scheduled for 9:32pm, but the parking ticket ran out at 9:30.  So we drove to Daymer bay - where the car park closes at 9:30.

The beach at Polzeath allows free parking after 6pm, so we walked along the beach, bought tea in the surfer's café, and sat on the stones waiting for the sun to go down.  Returning to darkness.

---

Walking Time: 203 Brisk: 72
Steps: 13986
Logged walks miles 2.53 (28:21 mins/mile), 2.53 (34:18 mins/mile)
Driven so far: 738.6 miles

Peril Index +2