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View taken from inside the Park and Ride Train, that runs fom Lelant, along the coast to Carbis Bay and St Ives, approx 15 minute journey
Most of the properties you can see are holiday homes, and are rented out.

Porthkidney Sands is a north-facing beach at the mouth of the Hayle Estuary. It lies only 2 miles from the picturesque harbour town of St Ives, Cornwall. Porthkidney is a vast expanse of sands, facing Hayle Towans to the east of the estuary. At low tide the beach can stretch almost a mile out to sea.

The beach is backed by picturesque sand dunes. West Cornwall Golf Club overlooks the beach. The neighbouring beach of Carbis Bay, which sits the other side of the Hawks Point headland, is a short walk along the South West Coast Path, which then proceeds to St Ives

Taken through our hotel room window, hence the dirt spots.

The current St Mary's lifeboat, RNLB The Whiteheads. A Severn Class lifeboat, it is too big for the old boathouse, so is moored permanently in the harbour. The lifeboat crew have to use a smaller boat to reach it.
St Mary's is unique in being the only lifeboat station that has a slipway, which is used to launch a boarding boat, to take the volunteer crew out to the lifeboat.