The Most Southerly Café in the UK.

First of all thank you all so much for the comments and hearts on my 4 years of blip yesterday.
I even made it to the popular page!
I’ve loved meeting you blippers and finding a supportive diverse community. Here’s to another year!
On to today’s blip journal.
Each year for the past 22 (!) we’ve had a week on the Lizard in SW Cornwall.
A tradition sprang up when we discovered this café at Lizard Point.
I said in my blip yesterday that it has not been given a modernisation, thankfully. It’s part of it’s charm remaining the same year in year out, with a lick of paint and repairs no doubt every now and again. The food is great.
Sitting on the terrace in the sunshine, looking out across the vastness of the ocean, watching waves breaking in white foam over the rocks, sparkling water and overarching blue sky, is just perfect.
We sat there this morning first of all with a coffee and a Cornish “heavy” bun. Stephen once asked the owner what ingredients it contained but apparently it is a secret!
He had tried to guess and make some, but nothing compares to the ones here.
We were sitting for ages watching the seals, two in the water and two basking on nearby rocks. It got to lunchtime so we had lunch there too.
In the photo you can see some camera equipment in the foreground. It belongs to the RSPB who had set up a watch in spring several years ago in 2001 when a small number of choughs returned to the Lizard, for the first time in a long long time. (They still have one every year manned by volunteers.)
I have watched the choughs there myself there with their distinctive red legs and beaks and way of flying.
The RSPB watch the seals too, and log other sea birds along with sightings like dolphins, which apparently were seen earlier in the morning.
After lunch we went for a walk along the cliff path to Housel Bay. (Photo in extras).
The sea is turquoise in places and crystal clear.
Parts of the rocky cliffs are covered in bracken, fuschias, wild flowers of all kinds, and in places you can find yourself walking along through overhanging hedges like privet in flower, hawthorn and hazel, making a green tunnel of dappled light.
We parted company at Housel Bay so Stephen could have a longer walk and I made my way back up from the cliff paths until I reached Lizard village.
We had a yummy icecream each once he had returned.
Right now sitting in my armchair I can see the sea with its parallel bands of shining silver and darker hues as a band of white cloud is stretching across the horizon.
The weather is changing once more.
But for now, it has been just the perfect day.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/projects/cornwall-chough-project/

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