17th July

Looking back at Gribbin Daymark Tower where I spent the night listening to the bells attached to a buoy at the head.

Snake! 12.24pm, nearly trod on a little bright brown snake sunning itself on the path just past Lansollos Cove. I was too slow to take a photo, but it wasn't an adder and was the colour of dried fern (see picture).

I met a really neat guy in the Blue Peter Inn in Polperra, where I had lunch, who walked the whole Cornish coast for a local hospice. He finished last month. They had a pet caterpiller like my beetle!