Tintagel, Cornwall

After our short visit to St. Just we move on to Tintagel. Here we had booked into The Cornishman Inn, without doubt my favourite of all the B&Bs we stayed in throughout the trip. A good friendly pub atmosphere, excellent friendly bar staff, and also good food. As a bonus they allowed us to leave the car on their car park while we went on a wonder to the castle ruins etc, which was good of them considering we were only booked in for one night.
  And so the following morning we set off for the castle (or I should say a pile of stones) as far as castle ruins go this is definitely the bottom of the pile,(yet another pun) we have better castle ruins here in Penrith ,and they are not much. Its a long steep decent to the ticket/entrance/tourist shop, I was having none of it and let my Daughter walk down while I paid £2 for a ride down in a landrover, and similarly for the return trip (although by then the damage had been done)
   After leaving the ticket area we continued onto a stone walkway for a few yards before turning sharp left and onto a stone staircase set into a cliff. I have since said to friends if you visit said place make sure you take your climbing gear with you, a little exaggeration, maybe, but it was almost vertical.
   On summiting, with now wonky knees, I left the pretty one to wonder off in search of ruins, while I pursued a more profitable venture, I found some birds !!!.

Just beyond a wall (built to stop tourist from trying out free falling) I found these Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis)

 

 

Fulmars, one had just flown in and its mate was on a nest.

Fulmar on nest.

Having seen all we wanted to see on top of the first head of land, we then had to descend all the stone stairs, (not good for anyone who doesn't have a head for heights) to get to the wooden stepped bridge, this crosses a gaping drop to the second head of land, where believe it or not another steep stone staircase to get to the top of the head. It was also very narrow , so there was a certain amount of congestion. But the views.

Didn't want to change lenses so these are with the big lens.

The weather was definitely on our side this day.

What did I find on top of the second head ? I'll show you in the next post.