St. Anthony Head, and getting set to leave Mylor

We got some nice weather on Saturday and decided to take a day off from boat work to walk around St. Anthony Head, the set of bluffs on the southeast side of the entrance to the River Fal, the Roseland Peninsula. Getting there involved riding our bikes around to Flushing, parking them, and then taking three ferries: Flushing to Falmouth, Falmouth to St. Mawes, and St. Mawes to Place. 

As the last of those ferries approached the landing at the oddly-named "Place", we were treated to a nice view of Place House. It's, er, quite the Place.

 

Walking along the path towards the St. Anthony lighthouse, we passed St. Anthony's Church. It's small, but quite lovely. Katy took this at the intersection of the cruciform arms.

Continuing along the path, we passed this beach, a popular boating destination.

Lighthouse access is closed due to COVID-19, so this is about as close as we got.

The path runs very close to the edge of the bluffs at some places.

It also passes through pastures occupied by wild ponies.

There is also some nice foraging to be done. Mmmmmm...

The first part of the path, out to the lighthouse, has some shade, but further along it was very exposed and sun-blasted, so after getting far enough out to see some of the coves, we turned back.

All the pictures from the walk can be seen here.

That was Saturday. Sunday we did some plumbing work: reinstalling a filter that we had to get out of the way for the battery installation, and preparation to install a bidet faucet in the aft bathroom.

But today, Monday, was a biggie for us. Triskel Marine, the company that has been installing our snazzy new power system, came out and rebalanced our lithium battery banks, installed some fuses that were missed in the initial installation, and gave us the green light to start testing the system.

We cooked dinner on battery power for the first time tonight. We'll stay off shore power through tomorrow, then recharge on shore power tomorrow night, cycling the system through a full test cycle. If all goes well, and the weather cooperates, we plan to leave for the Isles of Scilly on Thursday, and some true cruising.