New month, new campsite. Today we moved to Marazion on the south coast of Cornwall. This move is one that we had to be careful of regarding timing. We were supposed to leave our Godrevy campsite by midday but we were unable to check-in at the new campsite before 14:00. It is a mere 30-minute journey.
Sainsburys to the rescue. On the outskirts of Penzance Sainsburys have a “superstore” which appeared to have parking that should enable a motorhome to find a double length parking spot depending, of course, on other customers’ vehicles. I had pulled into one possibility when a car driver moved off leaving a much more appropriate spot.
Happily, this Sainsburys was a much more appealing store with considerably more choice than that offered by the rather poor Asda effort at Hayle. We restocked Frodo’s fridge with dinner options for the duration. We were intending to be at Marazion for four nights.
One of the main attractions for a stay at Marazion is being within walking distance of St. Michael’s Mount in Mount’s Bay. Possibly the most intriguing feature of the mount is the cobbled causeway joining it to the mainland which gets flooded by the tide making it impassable for about half of the tide cycle. It could make for an interesting photographic subject. Having got Frodo settled, we wandered down to have a look.
The tide was pretty low when we got there and the entire causeway was exposed with a constant stream of people walking back and forth along it. From an elevated viewpoint, the causeway describes an elegant S-curve across the bay to the island – photographers love S-curves. A long exposure manged to lose most of the people but it was never going to be a clean shot. Interesting, though. The viewpoint was also too far away from the water to make much of the Big Stopper smoothing out the water. Still at least it lost most of the hoards.
There’s another problem with St. Michael’s Mount in that you are always looking south towards it – it’s too contre-jour; the sun is always largely behind it so the island looks dark/dull. Curiously, it has a sibling sitting off the opposite French coast, Mont St. Michel, which is north of the sun and which is, therefore, better illuminated.
I find the existence of these two very similar geographical features very intriguing.
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