First stop today was the Eden Project, near St Austell. We got torrential rain interspersed with sunshine - most welcome! The Eden Project is a sort of environmental campaign and botanic gardens, with huge plastic-covered insulated domes enclosing tropical and Mediterranean climates with thousands of plants inside. There are two similar domes in Singapore - I'm not sure which is bigger. This site is set up to handle thousands of visitors each day, but fortunately for us today was a relatively quiet one.
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| There are two huge "biomes", the tropical one (beyond) and Mediterranean one on the right. |
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| Inside the tropical biome. |
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| Those distant people high above give some idea of the size of these domes. |
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| They grow crops here, such as pineapples and rice. |
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| Unusual flowers - the stalk grows right through the middle of each. |
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| Looks like some pagans decided to party here. |
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| Even the bees grow unusually well here. |
This area produces white clay used for ceramics, and has huge clay-mining pits which are clearly visible on Google Earth. The Eden Project was built inside one of these pits. We tried but found despite their huge size they are well-hidden from the road - it's actually easier to see them from space!
We paused in Truro, the capital of Cornwall, for lunch and a bit of a wander, then continued south to Lizard, the most southerly point in Britain (Land's End is the most westerly point). After paying the usual parking man we walked down to the point.
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| What we really came for - coffee! |
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| Sue and the southern tip of Britain. |
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| Nearby Kynance Cove, where some brave tourists were swimming. |
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| A panorama of Kynance Cove. |
I've noticed that they like the letter "z" down here. There is the Begg family "Tregenza" ancestral branch of course, and places like Lizard, Penzance, and Marazion.
