Clovelly to Padstow

Thursday 24/7/08
We raised the anchor and raised the sail with one reef. The wind was ideal for a change. The route was headland to headland down the coast to Padstow, and to keep us occupied, a large group of dolphins joined us for over 15 minutes. We both took some video and tried to get photos, they were fantastic.
We arrived at Padstow too early for the lock, but we made our way to the outer harbour carefully finding the channel with the FLS and the Navman depth sounder. Neither were that good in the shallow ( where you actually need them, I might have to get a lead line ) but we moored up and used the tender to get ashore and search out Rick Stein's chip shop. The queue was long, but moving quickly. His chips were the best I've ever tasted.
We got back to the tender to find that the tide had come in quicker that I had thought, and I had to wade into the water to recover the tender.
The inner harbour was crowded, and most people seemed to be rafted one way or another.

Padstow and the River Camel in general looked like a very fine holiday destination, I'll have to visit there again by land.