Hoping for a smaller breakfast, I ordered just a few items from the full cooked breakfast. This didn’t work as my plate was filled with extras of the items that I had ordered.

After breakfast we drove to Falmouth to visit the National Maritime Museum. The museum has displays of boats along with galleries displaying different aspects of seafaring history. There is also a temporary exhibition space which is currently housing an exhibition on surfing.

The building is partly built below sea level at high tide. You can walk to the lower levels to see the tide level which was at its lowest point when we visited. At high tides these levels are under water.

We finished our visit to the museum in time for lunch but there was not enough time left on our parking ticket to have lunch without moving the car. I was hoping for crab sandwiches which would have been available in the many cafes near the harbour.

Mr C did a quick Google search and found a recommended café, Lizard Shellfish at Lizard Point. As we were driving there Mr C realised that it was further than Google had suggested but the crab sandwiches were well worth the wait.

Next, we parked at the nearby Lizard Point to say that we had been to the most southern tip of England after visiting the most western point of England when were at Lands End.

We returned to the Waterwheel to freshen up before driving to Fowey where we knew there were lots of restaurants suitable for an evening meal. Fowey was also a bit further than expected so when we passed The Bell Inn we decided to stop there. We both had fish and chips, which were delicious.

After dining we continued driving to Fowey. By this time, it had started to rain and the car park was a little way from the bay so we decided not to stop.

We returned to the Waterwheel were we had a nightcap in lounge which was very quiet compared to previous evenings.

Today was the first time for three weeks that I was able to manage a post volunteering walk in Attingham Park. I wasn’t able to due to the restrictive visiting hours in hospital. Mum has moved from hospital but is not yet home.

I was also pleasantly suprised to find that a scarf I had noticed before Easter had not been sold. I was sure that someone would have taken a fancy to it and I would have missed my chance.

Much later after visiting mum in her new temporary accomodation we enjoyed a beautiful sunset before dining in the Queens at Horton.

*Information taken from museum literature.

Designed and installed in the lighthouse by David Stevenson, 1892.

The Tarbat Ness lighthouse was built in 1830 on the site of an ancient Roman fort at the mouth of the Moray Firth in north-east Scotland.  It overlooks a wild and windy coast that, in local folklore, was danced on and flown over by witches.

Robert Stevenson designed the lighthouse at Tarbat Ness.  His grandson (cousin of author Robert Louis Stevenson), produced the design for the optic which was installed in 1892.  It was in use until the automation of the lighthouse in 1985.  Tarbat Ness became the first coastal lighthouse to have flashing lights which could be seen as far as 24 miles (38.64km) out to sea.

Lighthouses were originally lit by naked flames.  This was very hazardous and they often burnt down.  Oil and gas lamps were safer but were replaced soon after electric light was introduced in 1862.

We had hoped to  visit the Queen’s House afterwards but we ran out of time due to parking restrictions in the car park we had chosen.  I am sure we will be back soon to see all the things we missed.