Today Jane organise boat trip up and down the Fal estuary using the various ferries. The estuary is the outlet of the Fal River from Truro, down to Falmouth and out to sea. The first stage was a short trip from the Flushing wharf just opposite our cottage to Falmouth. Then after a short wait, we boarded Duchess of Cornwall for a one and half hour trip up to Truro. Not all the way to Truro because the tide was going out, so we landed on the stop before and were bussed to Truro. Here we sat around in the sun at the local Farmers Market before bussing back to the boat and taking another ferry down to Trelissick, Cornwall's most beautiful woodland gardens. From here we were to catch a ferry all the down to St Mawes where the estuary meets the sea. Jane had carefully studied the timetables, but at Trelissick we discovered that the ferry to St Mawes didn't start for a few weeks. We walked up the hill to the gardens and restaurant. The regular entrance from a car has no climbing, but from the ferry, the path zig and zagged up from the river such that day my wrist Fitbit recorded walking 7,514 steps and climbing13 floors. From here, we went back to Falmouth and then back across to Flushing. Jane did a trip from Falmouth the St Mawes on Friday.
The small ferry from Flushing to Falmouth
The larger ferry from Falmouth to Truro.
The chain car ferry and a look across the stern.
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