The rare geology of the area of Lizard creates a haven for exceptional plants and flowers, where you can meander along a small but steep walkway from the lighthouse down to the lookout point towards the Scilly Isles. Seals frequent these waters and there is a telescope which you operate with pennies to have a closer look into the turquoise waters to see if you can spot them close up.
Lizard is also famous for their ornamental working of Serpentine stone and you can find anything from the raw stone to elaborately carved replicas of the light house, ashtrays and even large table lamp bases.
Lizard is underlain by this unique metamorphic rock- serpentine, dark green veined with red and white. Serpentine was one of the rocks thrust up from underneath the crust, which was rich in iron and magnesium, when the Rheic Ocean crust became what is now Cornwall, peridotite, was changed to serpentinite, or serpentine - one of the Lizard's most beautiful rocks.
Around the coastline you’ll find little fishing ports with huge granite sea walls to protect from the Atlantic gales, restaurants specialising in freshly caught seafood, and gorgeous sandy bays with jagged black rocks jutting out in to the sea. Stand right on the tip of the Lizard and look out to sea. At 49°57' N, the most southerly point on the UK’s mainland.
The villages are picture book perfect with tiny thatched cottages clinging together at the ends of the valley in coves where a small fleet of fishing boats catch fresh crab and lobster. In pubs by the shore there’s folk music and traditional Cornish singing.
The most Southern cottage in the whole of England.
And another fine pub, with a very very low ceiling...
Yummy, traditional Cornish Pasties.
And wine made out of honey. Nectar on the tongue :)
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