We stayed with good friends John and Liz Ellison in the lighthouse keepers' cottage on Whitsand Bay. The shoreline has been devastated by the winter storms, so the white sand of previous years has been removed to expose great bars of rock.
 
On the peninsula there are small villages, one of the prettiest being Cawsand .
 
Also the Mt Edgecumbe estate is home to an extensive and spectacular carmelia garden