Day Twenty-two : Falmouth to Dartmouth

After a very quick shop for scones, pork pies and cornish pasties from Rowe's Bakery, we cast off. Starting with one layer of clothing is a little misguided as when we round St. Anthony's Head (see photo opposite), showers mean that the full wet-weather gear is deployed again. We see 3 dolphins south of Dodman Point, after a lunch of warm cornish pasties and baked beans, and pass south of the Eddystone Rock at 1530. The weather is fair at this point but the clouds are building along the fronts behind us.

As we approach the entrance to the river Dart, the weather is fair and some smoked salmon needs using up so we make some canapes to nibble before we change course for Dartmouth.

We tie up at the Town Quay and decide to give the galley a night off. Instead, we eat at Rockfish which was opened this summer by Mitch Tonks just down the quay from his flagship restaurant The Seahorse. Here we feast on local crab salad - absolutely lovely! But the highlight of the evening was meeting Mitch himself and having an in-depth discussion about the mystery 'cod' we caught off Baltimore. Really wish I'd taken a photo of the mystery fish before it was prepared for cooking but that would have meant the rain ceasing. So we have to make do with a verbal description and Mitch comes to the conclusion it could have been a Pollack.

Time for a quick nightcap and the Dartmouth Yacht Club and a check on the weather. More storms forecast, so it' s uncertain if we'll continue eastwards tomorrow.