Penzance by night

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I obvious take and post lots of photos of Penzance and west Cornwall. Focusing on the coastline and beaches. Over the last few years however, I’ve started noticing how beautiful various parts of Cornwall are at night. It’s so easy to walk past these places after work or hurrying to the pub and completely ignore them. Penzance is absolutely no exception. So…before the high street and all of the old, charming buildings in the area entirely disappear (in the name of progress…or profit!), I thought I’d start trying to capture it.

I’ve been working on a little photography project over the last few months in Penzance. I still have plenty of work to do before I’ve finished…but to start, here are a few of Fishboys Pz. Looks stunning at night!

Beach Rater - Praa Sands

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Another beach in our guide that doesn’t look that enticing. However, a lower rating is based on the fact that the beach regularly gets surf and doesn’t always suit safe/enjoyable swimming. In the right conditions there are a number of glorious swims available, including quite an exciting cave swim and swims featuring rock features.

Wild Swimming Days Out

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We’re running a number of ‘Wild Swimming Days Out’ in 2023 and annually. These are swimming days that are designed for all-comers. We have swimmers that turn up and do head up breaststroke, all the way through to swimmers that’ll cover 3-4km. The day is designed to take in 3-4 swims, with minimal travel between swims. Our West Cornwall day out in 2023 saw us park up and manage 4 swims without moving vehicles. We typically set a rough area and then get in touch 2-3 days before the event, once we’ve seen an accurate forecast and announce the exact swim locations. This ensures that you swim in flat and enjoyable conditions.

Our west Cornwall Wild Swimming Days Out saw us swim from 2 secluded beaches to the west of Perranuthnoe, one beach swim from Perranuthnoe and another glorious swim towards Cuddon Point.

Penzance holiday activities guide

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Now offering midweek swimming holidays, to run alongside our weekend and private booking activities, we thought it’d be a great idea to include a Penzance activities guide. An idea of additional activities you could undertake whilst visiting. OBVIOUSLY it’ll be difficult to compete against the swims we’ll offer but we’ll direct you to some providers that can compliment the swims.

Your first port of call might be to check out Kayak’s local area guide, particularly for accommodation - CLICK HERE.

You also want to check out some of the following :

  1. Western Discovery - walking holidays

  2. Ocean High beach hire/activities provider, Marazion

  3. Ocean Sports Centre, Carbis Bay. Activities and hire centre

  4. Kernow Coasteering

  5. Electric bike hire - Ride On / Beryl Bikes

  6. Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens

  7. Sauna on the sea front

  8. Local art galleries

  9. Surf school Praa Sands / Surf school Sennen

  10. Visit St Michael’s Mount

  11. PASTIES!

  12. Minack Theatre

  13. Polgoon Vineyard and vineyard tours

  14. Morrab Gardens

  15. Good food and entertainment

  16. Great food in town

  17. Newlyn Filmhouse

  18. Mousehole Harbour