Tuesday 7^th August – Tresco, Isles of Scilly

49:57.484N 6:20.822W

Today was a glorious, sunny day.  We took the ferry to St Agnes, one of the other inhabited islands lying to the south of St Mary’s.  We walked around the island, which seems quite isolated with, once again, dramatic scenery of rocks sticking out of the Atlantic. 

We found a small camp site on the west side of the island and it was in a very exposed and windy location.  Nevertheless, there were quite a few hardy souls camped there and all were having a good time.

We came back to the top of the island as the tide was going out and this meant that we could walk across the drying sand bar that links St Agnes with the island of Gugh (pronounced ‘Goo’).  We strolled around Gugh for an hour or so, with a population of seagulls plus two what looked like holiday cottages, but nothing else.

There is a lovely anchorage between the islands called the Cove, the sand bar providing shelter from the northerly swell that we are experiencing today (and which is giving us a very uncomfortable night tonight – no wonder it was crowded – it is still exposed to the wind though).

Returning across the sand bar to St Agnes, we had afternoon tea (scones and clotted cream) at a small café just up the hill.

When we got back to Tresco, the dinghy was dried out on the sand and so we went along to the pub to check the weather forecast and for a swift half to let the tide come in and re-float the dinghy (a neat trick that we have done before).  When we got back to the beach, however, the dinghy was even further from the sea – unfortunately we’d got it wrong, the tide hadn’t quite finished going out!