Mevagissey - Outer Harbour Blithe Spirit left of pic.

Started Heading back East, as the weather is not as settled as it was last week, with Atlantic depressions consistently tracking across the uk, creating strong winds where they meet the Azores high sitting just South West of Cornwall, so conditions not ideal for a nice time in the Scilly Isles. Were still watching the weather as it looks like the high may take hold on Sunday, but it's getting a bit late for us and it probably won't last, if this weeks is anything to go by.

After Helford we headed back up to Falmouth and up the Fal river, simialar to Helford but used as a home for unemployed ships, due to it's deep water. Quite bizarre to see huge ships in amongst the wooded banks of the river.

We found a nice anchorage in Channels cove at the bottom of the grounds of Tressilick House.

Channels Cove and Tressilick House

The weather on Wednesday was miserable and it convinced us to start heading East, for some of the place we missed on the way down. We chose Mevagissey, which is great as it is not frequented by yachts too often, without many facilities for us either. You either rise and fall on a rough wall or pick up a fore and aft buoy in the centre of the outer harbour. Luckily we got the buoy, which meant we didn't have to tend our lines, and watch our topsides, although it gets quite tightly packed with fishing boats at the end of the day. It seems to have a much larger and more active fishing fleet than alot of much bigger ports we have visited, although many of them prefer to make there money taking tourist trips in season. At least we did get the use of shower with our mooring fee, even if it was the fishermans, next to the bait store on the Fish Quay.

Fish Quay Shower!

As we liked Mevagissey so much we decided to stay another night and spend a day visiting the Lost Gardens of Heligan. We found them, and was pleased to find that the steepish entrance fee seems worth it, and you can easily spend a long relaxing day there. It seemed quite strange spending so long on land, and so far from the sea! (Couple of miles!)

We also found an excellent Portuguese restaurant, making the most of the local seafood.