This tour doesn't cover great distances, but there is more on the way than you could see in a day. The northern coast road from St Ives to St Just is one of the few drives in Cornwall to give really good views; elsewhere it really repays the effort to stop off and stroll virtually any section of the continuous coast path, which gets much closer up to the cliffs than the road.
There are some marvellous sandy beaches on the way, with the best ones for swimming at St Ives and Sennen Cove. But one to stay clear of is the idyllic-looking beach at Portheras Cove, which unfortunately is unsafe as there is jagged metal around (the debris from a shipwreck that was rather thoughtlessly blown up in the 1960s).
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