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Dist:0.6km north<br/>Not a beach as you might understand it. Not sand, not even pebbles but granite boulders cover this beach. Walking on the coast path you will need to dance along these boulders for a while before returning to a proper path.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.6km north<br/>A detailed geological explanation of this unusual beach formed of large boulders can be found here: http://www.ussher.org.uk/PDF/Abs05 Knight.pdf
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Looking east towards Boscawen cliff. From here the coast path goes a little way inland, round a garden, and then down to the bouldered beach at St Loy.
©Sheila Russell
Dist:0.6km north<br/>These small fields seem to have been turned into lawns for the adjacent house but originally they would have been cultivated to grow early spring flowers in this mild climate. Flowers such as daffodils, narcissi, violets and lilies of the valley were taken into Penzance and sent by train to Paddington, destined for Covent Garden market.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.6km north<br/>
©Row17
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Treryn Dinas in the far distance.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.6km west<br/>This open headland is covered in Spring Squill. St Loy Cove is ahead and round the corner; Boscawen Point is the far headland.
©Frances Watts
Dist:0.6km west<br/>Lichen covered granite outcrops that typify the south west Cornish coast. This was taken just along from Merthen Point looking across to Boscawen Point
©Cornwall Guide
Dist:0.7km north<br/>
©Row17
Dist:0.7km east<br/>
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.7km north<br/>
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.7km east<br/>Looking south west towards Merthen Point, Cribba Head and Logan Rock.
©Sheila Russell
Dist:0.7km east<br/>
©Row17
Dist:0.7km north<br/>St Loy is a coastal hamlet in a wooded cove.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.8km west<br/>
©Row17

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