I Spy

Today was a day for “I spy”, we saw everything! What a day! We started off in Marazion, anchored in the shadow of St. Michael’s Mount, then heading off around the corner towards Porthcurno we approached the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship ever built for the UK Navy, at 284 meters. Dwarfing us in comparison. She’s said to be able to carry 60 aircraft with 679 crew. We could see a handful of them watching us from the top deck. She was guarded by four patrol boats in a diamond formation, ready to ward off any boats (or kitesurfers) who got to close. We obviousy wanted the photo-op, so got closer, and you could see these patrol boats change their orientation, as we approached. Not wanting to pick a fight, we took our snaps and were soon on our way.

Around the corner and we started counting off the lighthouses, before heading out to Wolf Rock, about a quarter of the distance to the Isles of Scilly from the mainland. With this in sight Stew suddenly shouted he’d seen dolphins. Twisting to try and spot them, it wasn’t the single creature but a whole pod of about 10 common dolphins, their grey strip along the body clearly visible as they jumped. We followed them for a bit as they sped off downwind apparently chasing down dinner. Speaking of dinner, it wasn’t long after the dolphins that Stew then spotted a shark, about 6 foot long and sunning itself just below the surface. It obviously didn’t hear him coming because he was almost on top of it, before it made any moves to get away. Luckily he was flying the foil high enough that he missed it.

With all this wildlife we all had our eyes peeled on the sea, and almost missed the helicopter flying low along the water. Not sure if they were looking for something, or just doing drills, but about 20 minutes later it flew back again, higher this time. You’d have thought this would have taught us to look up not just at the sea, but approaching Hugh Town we were again surprised at a low flying aircraft. You could see the air strip at the top of the cliff as we went past. It must be a common mode of transport between the islands here as we saw a few planes throughout the afternoon.

We finished our crossing with a short beat upwind to our anchorage off Tresco, and Joe and Jeremy finally got a go at kiting themselves. The beaches here are beautiful fine white sand, covered in wild life. Think the twitcher on the beach with his massive camera lense was upset when we approached and scared off the oyster catchers he’d been watching. But they soon returned to watch these crazy kiters doing tricks along the beach.

Comoran

According to Cornish folklore, the first occupant of St Michaels Mount was the 18-foot giant Cormorant. He created the island by carrying white granite from the mainland at low tide, assisted by his wife Cormelian, who carried stones in her apron. One day when Cormoran fell asleep from exhaustion, his more industrious wife fetched greenstone from a nearer source, eschewing the less accessible granite. When she was halfway back, Cormoran awoke to discover Cormelian bringing different stones  from what he wanted, and kicked her. The stones fell from her apron and formed Chapel Rock. Another version involves the giant Trencrom,  the two are said to have thrown boulders back and forth as recreation; which explains the many loose boulders found throughout the area. One day Trencrom threw an enormous hammer over for Cormoran, but accidentally hit and killed Cormelian; they buried her at Chapel Rock. Not sure I like either version!

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