We went to Boscastle which is a village in Cornwall that has a harbour. There were lots of slippery rocks to climb on and a beach that I went onto to skim some stones. One of my rocks skimmed lots of times.
The harbour has 2 walls that were built in 1584 and a breakwater that was first built in 1820. It is a hard harbour to get into for ships so a special boat called a hobbler would go out to tow them into the harbour and the ship had to be kept in the middle of channel by men pulling on ropes.
In the village there was a pottery shop and there was a man in their throwing pots. They decorate the pots with a tree patterns which made from a special juice they brew from tobacco. It is called mochaware. The patterns were very pretty.
There was a cliff that we climbed up to see if we could see the Boscastle blow hole but it wasn't blowing today.
On our way down the cliff Aidan & I went down to the beach. I found a small crab sheel with purple inside of it. Next we climbed up another cliff where there was a coastguard station and the men in it were called John and Chris. They let us all look through their awesome binoculars. You could see a French ship laying cables and it was 19 miles out to sea! They also had a radar and a computer and we could see which ship it was on the computer..
I also saw an eagle up in the clouds and he was very pretty. On the way back to the harbour we could see the fields which are called the stitches. They look like they have been stitched up in rows. The stitches are from medieval times when the fields were divided up with little banks so that different people could own different parts of the one field.
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| these are the stitches |
I had an amazing day and saw lots of things.
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