Slipping By

As this Bank Holiday weekend comes to an end we should see the peak of the busiest tourist season I can remember in my thirty years of living in Cornwall.
Coming onto the horizon are the mists of autumn.
Walks on deserted beaches, the peace & quiet, the near empty car parks, pubs and restaurants once again interested in locals, but above all the sound of the Earth and Sea once more soothing our souls.
All very poetic but in reality a slight falling away of numbers probably. With ministers appealing for a return to normal schooling parents with children who are yet to have their ‘staycation’ due availability and/or price of accommodation will be arriving for a short summer break.
There seems to be none of the usual influx of students arriving in rented accommodation either, it could be that they have booked early to ensure it’s available or that they too are waiting for the normal student let’s to be freed up.

Today’s photograph shows a section of Penryn Creek, hard to see without access to areas off Commercial Road or parts of the coastal path to Flushing.