CORNWALL 2

Still can't get these pictures in the right place - butthat's life! The ones above and below are of Tintagel Castle on the North Cornish coast - the legendary home of King Arthur. Amazing ruins and a test of fitness to climb up the many steps to get ot the top. The coast line here all tall rocky cliffs and while the sea was fairly quiet while we were there one can easily imagine the dangers to ships during storms - lots of shipwrecks around here. On the way over to Tintagel we called into Launceston which funnily enough is on the River Tamar. We wanted to have a look at the castle there, b ut had trouble getting a parking spot, and then Carol spotted a sign which advertised the Tamar Otter Farm and indicated that the otters were fed each day at 12 noon. So we high tailed it to the farm and spent a most interesting hour or so hearing about the life of Otters and seeing several Asisan otters and British otters in their pens. Feeding time allowed us to get a better view of these lovely little creatures, which although friendly looking,were, according to the keeper, not to be petted as they would quickly bite of a finger! I managed to get a good shot of devouring apiece of raw fish - it disappeared in seconds - the fish I mean!
At the park there were also a n umber of Peacocks/geese and wallabies roaming around.
Wednesday was spent visiting Fowey/Polperro and Looe -all charming fishing villages with incredibly narrow streets. I drove down one with some trepidation uncertain as to whether it was one way or not, and stopped to ask a bloke if it was OK to go down - he said "Yes mate - but hurry as there is no one coming ujp at the moment"
The last day was spent in Falmouth where there is an excellent marine museum. Highlight of the museum was a special exhibition of "survivors at sea" including a first class film of Tony Bullimore's dramatic antartic rescure by the Australian Navy. All types of marine craft are on display including a Flying Dutchman, the type of yatch which Ben and I tried to restore some years back. The accompanying description stated that when the Dutchmas was first introduced into competitive sailing races, there was an attempt to ban it because ot was "dangerous to crew and fellow competitors !"
After lunch at the museum we went on to Pendennis castle which overlooks the Fal estuary and complements the St Mawes Castle on the opposite side of the estuary. It was used extensively during WWII equipped with modern weaponry.