23/8/26 Fowey & Polruan

 

Today we are going to the Town of Fowey - pronounced Foy apparently - and it's perched on the banks of the River Fowey . Again parking is at a premium , so we drove around town a bit before finding this elevated view over to Polruan - the town on the other side of the river . 

We drove down through the main street in Fowey , and were amazed at what we saw , I made sure Lyn was taking photo's , and then a video  , just to jog our memories later . The main street looked like it ended in front of a shop , but no it continued with a 90degree turn down the next narrow section , pedestrians hopping out of the way as we drove through at 5mph .

Couldn't believe we were driving through this .

After what seemed a long way , we came out at a ferry , so we stayed and waited for the ferry . It was 7pound 50p to go across ( about $14 Aus ) for a 100m trip across the river , but we could access Polruan , so away we went . 5 mins later we were across and off up the road , google leading us down the road .

Google then told us to turn right , so we did and it turned into a very narrow goat track - it was still bitumen , but only a small car width wide , grass was growing in the middle of the road - it was like driving down a farm track !! Hoping not to meet anyone worked for a while , then someone came zooming around a corner and found us . I reversed back , as we knew there was a gateway about 50m away , then proceeded up the track again . Managed to get to the top without more dramas , some other cars had to give way to us though .

We stopped at the obligatory top of the hill carpark , paid and wandered down to this rocky outcrop down below for some great views of the coast . The weather was amazing , and the breeze was picking up , so lots of yachts were coming out for a sail , by the time we left there were over 50 out there enjoying the water & weather.

The walk down to the harbour was great , lanes , steps & more , as well as the awesome views of Fowey on the other side of.

A couple of yachts heading out .

This was the end of the lane , for cars anyway , I'm sure you could fit a motorbike down there though .

There were some level sections of the lanes , but not many . A lot of these homes are also holiday rentals .

Continuing down to the harbour , we went past so many entrances to houses down below - they were just steps that descended out of sight . Interesting fact , they have flood gates fitted at the top of the steps to stop water running down the steps and straight in the front doors when it rains heavily . After a quick toilet stop , we headed back up the hill to the carpark . Yes the street was as steep as it looked . We actually turned into another laneway to get to the carpark in a shorter way , and it was steeper again , yes it got the heart rate up !!                                

We paused at the top to take in the view again , it was awesome !!

Some of the fishing boats were in dry dock for a repaint etc , getting ready for the season .

This was the track we walked up .

We reached the car and set off again , google took us back down the same track again , so away we went . Better luck this time , didn't meet anyone till we got back to a 2 lane road . From here we headed back toward London , finding somewhere to stay in Honiton for the night . 

Here's a map link:- https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1JNordo0LJ6qwCS0IuqT19QflAn0_VP0&usp=sharing