Tales from the riverbank.

Looking back across the River Tamar towards Plymouth,

from the hamlet of Cremyll, on the Cornish bank.

This couple are enjoying our recent spell of beautiful weather

as they wait for the pub to open and start serving lunch.

A sunny afternoon on the River Tamar

This river cruise boat has just entered the River Tamar from Plymouth Sound 

and is passing the tiny hamlet of Cremyll.

I took this photo a few weeks ago (6th July), 

because we haven't had many afternoons like this recently.

To be honest, the weather of the last few days has been almost autumnal.

Not all commuter journeys are crowded and stressful.

Workers commuting to Plymouth each day from the beautiful Rame Peninsula area,

just across the River Tamar in Cornwall, have a ten minute ferry ride from Cremyll to Plymouth

to relax and enjoy the view. 

However, I suspect that during some of this winter's storms this section of their journey to work became a bit of a "white knuckle ride".

A cold, blustery afternoon on the River Tamar

The ferry from the beautiful hamlet of Cremyll, on the Cornish bank of the river,

makes it way back to Admiral's Hard, its terminus in Stonehouse, on the Plymouth shore.

The river frontage of the Stonehouse district of Plymouth, 

like all the other "waterside" areas of the city,is under constant redevelopment.

 Many of the once prestigious but now shabby, older properties are being expensively
 renovated and returned to their original state.
While other sites are being cleared so that new apartment developments can rise in their place.  

A few hundred metres along the shoreline from the area above,
is the first phase of a major residential development in Millbay Dock, in Stonehouse.

An early spring morning on the River Tamar.

These two riverside communities face one another across the river,

This is the hamlet of Cremyll on the Cornish side of the river.

This is the Mayflower Marina at Stonehouse, on the Plymouth Bank of the river.

Early morning

Looking down from Mount Wise on to the River Tamar where it flows into Plymouth Sound.

The early morning ferry crossing from Plymouth to Cremyll,

to pick up commuters on their way to work in the city.

Cruising down the river on a Sunday afternoon.

Or in this case, cruising up the River Tamar. 

Passing the village of Cremyll and the entrance to Mt. Edgecombe Country Park, opposite Plymouth,

 in beautiful calm weather last Sunday afternoon.

Click Here for a "blast from the past". 

The soundtrack to such a day out from the 1950s.

The First Ferry on Sunday Morning

The passenger ferry from Cremyll to Stonehouse, crosses the Tamar just before it enters Plymouth Sound, linking  Mt Edgecumbe Park and the beautiful Rame Peninsula to the city. 

Or, as some would have it, linking England to the Celtic country of Kernow.

Cremyll

Yesterday I took the ferry, from Stonehouse to Cremyll, across the Tamar to visit the daffodil fields.The service keeps to a strict year round timetable, as it is an important commuter link. The weather was superb.

The first child was already busy on the beach, early visitors were entering the 865 acres Mt. Edgecumbe Country Park, the first customers were enjoying coffee by the river, outside the the Edgecumbe Arms and the water sparkled as they looked back to Plymouth.