Day 42 (31st July 2022)

 We were woken once again by the sound of rain and my heart sank. Some of the Germinal CCXXIV places in the Scillies are pretty far flung, accessible only by boat, and out here it doesn't take much in the way of bad weather to cause leisure trips to uninhabited islands to be cancelled.

So instead we got on a boat to St.Agnes as between her and the Island of Gugh (pronounced "Goo") is stop #95

PORTH CONGER

Porth Conger is the inlet on the North side of the two islands, the southern inlet is known as The Cove. At the top of Porth Conger are two tiny islands know as Cow & Calf. Whoever named these geographical features had a very vivid imagination. We had over-priced fish and chips at the one and only eatery on St.Agnes, had a look at Obadiah's Barrow and Guy went swimming with Morgan while I fretted about missing some of the Germinal CCXXIV places. 

On the way back, while looking at my map, I suddenly got very excited and scrambled to get my Germinal CCXXIV Tshirt on, get my camera ready and scribble on my white board. Some of the surrounding passengers started to get excited too, asking what had I seen? Was it Puffins? A Seal?? No, a rock, I replied. However, by the time I was ready to take the pic, the moment had past, much like the rock. But now I knew where it was, we realised it would be easier to photograph from the land. So after shopping for supplies, I headed off back to the shore for stop #96

BARREL OF BUTTER (2)

Who knew there were two? Not me until today. Apparently one of the big rocks landside is shaped like a barrel of butter, but these rocks were probably moved or broken up during the building of The Garrison. A canon now stares out along where I was standing.

Some of the rocks were quite buttery coloured, and had interesting little gangs of limpets living on them.

Our little hedgehog friend did come back for a visit but we managed to scare them off in the scramble to get our phones out!

Allons-y 

Douglas Germinal CCXXIV Brain over and out