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For a daily
photograph of the Surf from our favourite postman click here. Nice photo
archive too.
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I've been coming to Gwithian for over 50 years now and still can't manage a 'proper' holiday anywhere else but there! If I miss a year I feel cheated, they say the grass is always greener but it's just not true!! My memories are repeated in many other families up and down the country but when I was little we used to stay in a chalet called Chy an Dunes (now St Gothian?) just a couple of doors along from the Jampot and as the youngest, I had a tiny little bedroom with a curtain for a door. I can remember lying in bed and listening to the lighthouse wailing on stormy nights, sometimes creeping out to Mum and Dad who would sit in the covered veranda watching the light beaming out to sea warning the ships not to come too close!! I also remember cows grazing down in front of the chalet. Oh yes, and the fact that there was no road over the top field then, you just had to pick your way through the ruts, we often had to get out and walk so Dad could manouvre the old car without damage!! We became great friends of Billy and Mick who ran the Jampot (and named it such) and knew them right up until they died a few years back, both aged well into their 90's. They used to sell ice cream to people on the beach and if the customers didn't have their money with them, they would just ask them to bring it in later!!! I remember Dad was offered the bungalow next door (the one that was knocked down recently) for £800 but he couldn't buy it because he was a policeman and they weren't allowed to have other business interests back in those days!!! Can you imagine the profit margin on that now!!!! I learnt to swim, along with my 3 older brothers, in the sheep dip pool below the lifeguard hut and watch the fabulous sunsets from the rocks. It's not a proper sunset if it doesn't sizzle into water in my opinion!!! And the Red River - we would see who could stand in it the longest and get the reddest feet and ankles!!!! It was flippin' cold most days!!! And Godrevy Lighthouse...........well it's been the most favourite sight of my life for as long as I can remember. In these modern stressful days it's still a beacon of peacefulness and happy times for me and now my husband and family. We would dearly love to live in Cornwall as it's just so much a part of us but unfortunately, mortgages and jobs dictate otherwise so we satisfy our thirst with holidays as and when we can afford it.
Annon Nmae and Address suppilied
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