Ice cold Porthleven on fire
Just a week before the Porthleven Food Festival the small fishing town once again became the epicentre of Cornish surfing. With the hollow reef break just off the town’s harbour […]
Category Archives: Coastal Cornwall
What do you know about seaweed?
Edible seaweed, or sea vegetables, are abundant along the Cornish coast. And: Many of the brown, red and green species found around Cornwall are really tasty and even healthy. While […]
Surfing Sunshine in Winter
It’s been a week-end like no other. While Germany’s shivering under 30 cm of snow, Cornwall’s weekend warriors took to its beautiful beaches en masse. With ridiculous amounts of sunshine, […]
Gylly Beach to Pendennis Castle
The good thing with having four seasons a day is that you get summer at least once a day. Once you’ve managed to get a feel for how the cornish […]
Hiking around Helford Passage
Time and time again – when I manage to stay away from the surf – it strikes me how diverse Cornwall is. In its sheer natural beauty this part of […]
German charger in Ireland bombs
Nico von Rupp is probably the best surfer ever to hail from Germany (together with Marlon of course). And although he was brought up in Portugal, we as German surfers […]
Gylly Beach comes alive
Once every blue moon Falmouth’s infamous surf beach Gylly Beach comes alive. Last Friday happened to be one of those days. Within ten minutes Gylly Beach’s greyish and seaweed drenched waters […]
They’re out there…
This is what ran on the front page of the local “Western Morning News” today. A picture of a 320lb thresher shark caught by fishermen near Padstow, off the coast […]
Winter finally arrives
It was one of those weekends. Starting Saturday Cornwall’s jagged coast was greeted by winter’s first surf herald – a proper 16 second 7ft swell that lasted until late Monday. […]
Solid waves herald winter swell season
Last weekend October finally delivered. A massive low just off Ireland brought England’s southwest some solid swell with periods ranging between 15-20 seconds! St Ives’ favorite surf son Oli Adams […]
Sea At Last 