Heavenly delights await the visitor at Hell's Mouth cafe on the road between Portreath and Godrevy. Freshly baked, deliciously delectable, plain or fruit homemade scones are accompanied by more local clotted cream and fruity jam than you can manage, all washed down by thirst quenching hot tea You need to work up a healthy appetite to do justice to this feast. Walk the glorious stretch of coast path between Godrevy lighthouse and Hell's Mouth Bay, seal spotting and taking in stunning views of St. Ives Bay,the north Cornish coast and the wide blue atlantic, then cross over the road to the cafe and indulge.

Godrevy, Gwithian, Cornwall

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Long gone are the days of my childhood, spent hunting for huge, edible pink crab with my great-uncle on the rocks of West Pentire. However, Vugga Cove on Crantock beach still holds many delights for rockpoolers, young and old.

This archipelago of pools is a tapestry of oxygenating wispy lime green and the burnt umbers and siennas of bladderwrack. Skylarks sing overhead as you hunt with bucket and net for fish and crab. The tiniest of creatures await to be inspected; sea lice, baby translucent fish, shrimps. Two-inch long stickleback and little shore crabs lurk in crevices.

Later, hot and sticky from the chase, you can swim in the warmed waters of Peggy's pool before the tide sweeps in to cover it.

Crantock beach, near Newquay, Cornwall

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