Lizard Flora Blog Contest.

The bio-diversity of the Lizard is very much documented so I thought we could have a Eurovision style contest to choose a winner of the wild flower world.

In order to do this we need to know the competitors before Janice and I set off on our coast path walk to Lizard Point.

So, in no particular order here are the wild flower contestors:-

Blue Spring squill

Pink thrift

Creamy sea campion

Hottentot fig

Spotted cats ear

Bloody cranes bill

Land quillwort

Dwarf rush

The sun was shining again as we set off from the site to the coast.  We first got to the coast path at Poldhu  Cove.

Closely followed by the Marconi monument...

This is a commemoration of the point from which the first wireless message was sent across the Atlantic in 1901.  The message was a repetition of the letter S in morse code and it was received in St John Newfoundland by Guglielmo Marconi himself.

We digress, back to the flowers.  Along our walk the wild flowers were prevalent and sadly we couldn't recognise many of them.  Here is a few pictures....

I think the flowers in the bottom right corner are little micklemas daisys?

Maybe creamy sea campion?

Are these Hottentot figs?

There was an abundance of pink thrift and blue spring squill too.

The coastal scenery was stunning.....we passed several coves, this one is Mullion Cove....

This is where we had our pack lunch watching 6 seals in the water, sorry the seals didn't manage to get in a good photo but the view was still brill!

The rocks in the sea are at Kynance Cove and are called Asparagus Island, Steeple Rock and Suggar Loaf.

This is down in Kynance Cove.  Janice getting her feet wet.

This view is of Lizard Point, the most southerly point of the British Isles.  We visited the most northerly point, Duncansby Head,last year.

The walk took us about 5 hours and we had considered walking back but discretion got the better of valour and we caught the bus back.

We had been focusing on the plants but we didn't ignore the bird life.  However there were no chuffin' chough's in sight.  I've only just found out that they look a bit like a blackbird but have a longer orange curved beak.

My decision for the Lizard Flora Blog Contest is......the cream sea campion as it was prolific throughout the walk and I think I can correctly identify it!

Back at the van, we are the only vehicle on site.  It's really nice to have a beautiful location all to yourselves.  We were forced to open....

It is our last prize from the quiz night at Bishopsteignton.  It's only fruit juice at 9pc alcohol by volume!