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Chapel Porth, Cornwall

Wow, we’ve been to this beautiful Cornish beach hundreds of times but this was a different story.  On the lowest tide of the year, the white sands stretched for miles, all the way along to Porthtowan.  Exposed by the low water, the caves cut right back under the overhanging cliffs, with enormous rock pools, deep enough for the 5 kids to take their body boards in, to paddle and swim with the gorgeous soft sand underfoot.   The grown ups did a bit of surfing whilst the little ones jumped the waves in the shallows, then we borrowed buckets and spades from the shack in the car park, and dammed the stream which meanders down the beach.  We earned our hot chocolate and buttery croques with prawns, ham and cheese from the beach café.  And no visit would be complete without an ice-cream hedgehog – vanilla ice-cream, topped with clotted cream and chopped hazelnuts!