The rugged Cornish coast is well exemplified in this image of the three bays. With the waves clashing against the rocks. Hidden coves and bays litter the cornish coast giving rise to historical tales of smmuglers and pirates.

The town of St Ives revolves around two industries tourism and fishing.

Tourist flock to this part of Cornwall, some might come to paint, others for the fresh fish caught and brought straight to restaraunts in the area and further a field.

With it's crystal blue waters, golden sands and a warm temperature brought in by the Gulf Stream it makes for a wonderful place to holiday.

Winding narrow cobbled streets with clotted cream cottages lining them, combined with the smell of the sea and cornish pasties and Cornish cream teas.

If you have time to wait and take a walk down to the harbour you might just catch a glimpse of a harbour seal, these mammals swimming clse to the fishing vessels waiting for a bite to eat.

Another wild creature waiting for a bite as well will be an abundance of Sea Gulls, they will snatch the food right out of your hand if your'e not wachfull.

Gwaryjy Minack in Cornish. The theatre was the brainchild of Rowena Cade, who lived at Minack House overlooking Porthcurno Bay. In 1929, a local village group of players had staged Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in a nearby meadow, repeating the production the next year. They decided that their next production would be The Tempest and Miss Cade offered the garden of her house as a suitable location, as it was beside the sea. Miss Cade and her gardener made a terrace and rough seating, hauling materials down from the house or up via the winding path from the beach below. In 1932, The Tempestwas performed with the sea as a dramatic backdrop, to great success. Miss Cade resolved to improve the theatre, toiling hard over the course of the winter months each year throughout her life (with the help of Billy Rawlings and Charles Angove) so that others might perform each summer.

In 1944, the theatre was used as a location for the Gainsborough Studios film Love Story, starring Stewart Granger and Margaret Lockwood but inclement weather forced them to retreat to a studio mock-up. In 1955, the first dressing rooms were built. Since 1976 the theatre has been registered as a Charitable Trust and is now run by a local management team. Rowena Cade died on 26 March 1983, at the age of 89.

Nowadays, the theatre is used from June to September for a full summer season of 17 plays, produced by companies from all over the UK and visiting companies from the USA. The theatre is open for visitors throughout the rest of the year. The 75th Anniversary of Minack was celebrated with a production of The Tempest in August 2007, directed by Simon Taylor and performed by the Winchester College Players.

The Port Isaac pier was constructed during the reign of Henry VIII. The village's central precinct dates from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, from a time when its prosperity was tied to local coastal freight and fishing. The port handled cargoes such as coal, wood, stone, ores, limestone, salt, pottery and heavy goods which were conveyed down its narrow streets. Fishermen still work from the Platt, landing their daily catch of fish, crab and lobsters.

The Port Isaac Libeboat station was established in 1869 following the delivery of two lifeboats calledRichard and Sarah. The former boathouse is now the building called the Post Office. In the early 1960s the Royal National Lieboat Institution introduced the Inshore Lifeboat, and in 1967 the Port Isaac Station reopened with a new Class D inshore lifeboat. Since that time, the lifeboat has responded to more than 550 calls, in the process saving more than 140 lives. Today, Port Isaac's crew and shore helpers man the station twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, providing full coverage of Cornwall's north 

Porthgwidden beach is cheek by jowel with it's more illustrious neighbour St Ives.

With unbroken views of the Lighthouse at Godrevy and across to St Ives 'Island', it is only a short walk from the town centre to the fine sandy beach, and with it's east facing direction it becomes a suntrap during the morning.

The River Fal {in Cornish Dowr Fala} runs through Cornwall on its way to the English Channel. It rises  on the Goss Moor between St.Columba and St Austell. On the banks of the Fal are the casltes of Pendennis and St Mawes along with the gardens of Trelissick which are all worth a visit.

The River Fal splits the the peninsula of Roseland from the rest of  Cornwall. The Fal estuary is a classic ria, or drowned river valley, similar to others on the south coast of Cornwall and Devon.

The naming of ships and boats goes back many centuries, the origins of which I am not sure of.

It could have something to do with a family member, girlfriend, wife or sister.

They are usally female probably some phalic thing.

If you know any more pleas let me know.

There are places around the world that are easily recognised just because of a single iconic image which is always used to promote the town, village, city or country.

Now my partner is from Cornwall and has said this herself that this image of St Ives is a classic one.