Raves & Rants . . from Penzance

Yesterday, on the way back from a shoot with intriguing Newquay based artist Sam Walsh for Award winning magazine Cornwall Today , a phone call suddenly sent us rocketing coastwards. We're being invaded ! I heard. There's millions of them on the beaches ! I heard. They're jellyfish ! I heard. Turns out, literally millions of tiny 'By-the-Wind-Sailor' jellyfish had mistakenly had a 'mass stranding' along the south coast from Penzance to Perranuthnoe due to a recent onshore storm. Vast swathes of them littered the tideline for miles. However, as a relative of the extremely poisonous Portuguese Man-o-War jellyfish it was going to take a braver, or madder, man than I to hold one up for a picture. Luckily, I just happened to be returning The Patient Wade to his soft walled room after his regular Soothing & Calming appointment at a local hospital. Affably thoughtless when exposing himself to injury, I persuaded him to stop eating them long enough to get this...

I came across this fantastic beach a while ago, and thought it was very much worth the effort of finding it again. Rumour has it that when decent sized surf hits, from exactly the right direction through the narrow swell window, a mystical A-frame peaks and then peels down both sides of the far rocks you can see in the picture below. Apparently it's an easy take-off and a guaranteed barrel whichever way you choose to go. Find out more about this wonderful beach here : http://thisisnotcornwall.co.uk/porthemmet/ Return to Ocean-Image.com