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Coastguard Lookout, Gwennap Head - 11Aug2010
Coastguard Lookout, Gwennap Head - 11Aug2010
REMEMBER THESE THINGIES NEAR GWENNAP HEAD AND PORTHGWARRA?
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The way to the sea.

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Note the two day marks here at Porthgwarra and Gwennap Head.
The Runnelstone.

Despite appearances, the 1888 Navigational Map of the Admiralty shows a shelf between the Runnelstone and the cliffs.
Here there is 25 fathoms of water, the Runnelstone rises through 20 fathoms;

the sea bed between the
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The day marks are/were used by vessels to keep clear of the Runnelstone - if the black and white marker is obscured by the red one, then you re on the Runnelstone! Of course, the Runenelstone is also marked by a Trinity House buoy.
 
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Information copied (above) from my picture of the Runnelstone Buoy; the rock is now some twenty feet below water, much safer.
 

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