 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm out for a walk in Cornwall today, on this side it's a rather residential road but if we look onto the other side it's quite spectacular to view. I'm just on the edge of the Cornish fishing town of Foy. So Foy is down there, that's Polruin you can see over there. We're heading down there to St Catherine's Castle, one of the little castles on the end of where, well the mouth of the river Foy goes out into the sea. So we're going to go down there, have a look at the castle, see what we find, you can just see a big ship there looking up the river. I did a few years ago, I came down here, I remember I went on the ferry across to Bodinick, I walked all the way around that estuary to Polruin and then I got very back, so it's a really, really nice place to go for a walk but as of today we're going down there to St Catherine's Castle. So I'm now making my way down the zigzagging streets down towards the coast. Look over there, that's St Catherine's Castle, that's where we're heading, we've got across this little cove where there's people canoeing and I think all sorts of fun in the water, something in the past there, up there to St Catherine's Castle. I'm really excited about this, it's going to be a nice little adventure. Now that we've come across this beach this is Ready Money Cove, come up these steps, I'm on to National Trust Land now, St Catherine's Point and it's from there we're going to follow this path up through the woods to St Catherine's Castle then we're going to have a look at the ruins. You get quite a lot of these small castles at the edge of estuaries, especially around Devon and Cornwall. We did a video, when was it, a couple of years ago, three years ago at Dartmouth where I explored Dartmouth Castle and it was in a similar setting to this, so if you're interested do have a look at the link on screen now, it's my exploration of Dartmouth Castle. I'm going to continue on up these steps though to find St Catherine's Castle. So the sea is down there below us, I'm now going up even more steps and I believe we're not too far now, there's a sign, it's helpful. So we come to this wooden sign here, Ready Money Beach, 125 yards. Ribbon head I think, two miles, not going to go there today, four to three course miles, so I possibly could go back to Foyle that way. I may or may not. So we get to here, now this sign looks like it's broken but I would say the castle is down there but we're going to go straight on because I think I can already see a good view ahead of us so we might as well see the view and then we can go back down there to find the castle. So as we come to here, we're on the headland now and wow the view opens out, look at this, looking out to sea. So you've got to see one way, there's the castle, it's not a huge castle but there will be more of it, we'll have a look when we get down there and that's looking up the foyer street, so a town of foyers there. So that's the main branch river foyer going that way, I'm not sure if that's also the river foyers, it's like two rivers, you get it with Lou, there's the East River Lou and the West River Lou and then that's Paul Ruin over there. So let's just go around the castles that way, if we can go around here and see a bit more. This is the south west coast path, I've said that in the videos as well, I'd love to walk it one day, I will do it one day, so one day I'll just have to do a series of the whole of all the coasts of Britain but right now we're just here in Foingall. So I'm going to go down there next, we're going to go and do what the whole purpose of this video is, to go and see St Catherine's Castle. So as we now walk down through the woods to the castle itself, just a little bit of history, going back to the Iron Age it would have been more like a staging point, a stroke sort of lookout, it wouldn't necessarily have been manned all the time. It then became medieval castle, there'd have been a chapel up there where we were, it eventually became part of Sir William Rashley estate, so he incorporated it into his estate and then most recent fortification or use, if that's the word, it's had was during the war in the 1940s, it was used as part of the coastal defence, so we might see some, yeah, as we come into the castle itself, you can see where they would have had guns looking out, mainly out that way, because of course as we said when we were up there, that is the river Foist, that's looking inland, so you can see where the two guns would have been placed. And then there's the older part of the castle, so we're going to go up those steps and see what we can see, which should no doubt be very exciting. Yeah, I think there's a pretty sheer drop down there, we're not quite as high, we were quite a bit high, but let's go, let's go a bit higher up to the tower, because that looks too exciting to not see, it also has that feel of, you know, the horn of the smugglers and the wreckers, interesting thing there's another little castle over there or a little tower house, and I can just see what looks like ruins of a castle, I'll put poor ruin, just there. I think I vaguely remember seeing a castle there, so look up these steps. What I do like about Corden is the coastal, things you get on the coast, steps like this, you know what it is, don't worry about health and safety, you know, no fence on the other side, you just have to, you know, not turn too close to the edge, so look up here. And still, instead of having no fence you can literally walk to the edge and look down. That's the path we just walked along down there, we went up through the woods, so I started the video off of that field up there, which is actually also an actual road, it's called the Castle Field, made my way down through the houses across the beach to here. Now let's go up to the most exciting part of the castle. Never been here before, so I am literally seeing this as I explore it, I'm showing it to you. If you go up here, love the views, you know, always enjoy going to a castle, it's always a bonus when you go to a castle, which has views like this. And let's see what else we can see, I think we can probably go inside, into the tower, cool. There's some stairs up there that go onto the roof, but I don't think we can get up there, I'm not going to go do any climbing today, but it'd be quite fun if you could go up there, walk round the top of the tower. Let's just go out here, so that's where we were a moment ago, see where the guns would have been, one of them and the other one would have been just down there, see what happens, see where this will take us down the edge. Okay yes, that comes to a bit of a dead end, you can see where we were, not so long ago, I'm seeing some people, so that's where we were, so around there would have been the chapel, there is a cove right down there, which I think is very difficult to get to, and if you have a boat, certainly not going to go down there. Let's go up these rocks a bit and just have a look at the view, just watching that boat come out to see I've really liked on a hot day like today, it's not really really hot, but going out to see it must be so nice out there. I'm now going to make my way back to Foy and we'll have a look at the, just see what we can see on the way back. So back in Foy Town Centre, that's the Escalade along now, before we go we'll just go and see where you would get the ferry to Paul Ruins, £2.50, haven't got time to do it today, so I'm not actually going to do it, but what you do is you walk down all these stairs, and it looks as though it's just there, just the other side of the breakable traffic, you can actually see the flag on it, so that would take you across to Paul Ruins if you are in Foy, I do recommend doing that, that is quite a fun thing to do, as is the walk to St Catherine's Castle, as we go along here we'll be able to look back and be able to see where we've been, St Catherine's Castle, and we'll walk back up there, make my way back to Town Centre, hopefully I'll get an ice cream perhaps, so as we go along, I guess she goes quite a long way, so there's another little beach as well, so if we look out there that is St Catherine's Castle right over there, there's another little beach here, Paul Ruins looks very attractive too, so like I said it is worth going through, perhaps one day when I've got more time, I'll come here and I'll make a video about the walk all around the estuary, because that is really worth doing, and you can do both the ferries, and I have also taken my car on the ferry, not my larder at the time I had a rover, but I did find some drive on and off the Boddenick ferry, and I remember when I got to Boddenick, going in the church, it didn't look like a church, it used to look like a little cottage, it's only because it said Boddenick Church, I realised, so we got up here and I'm going to walk along the Esplanade, back towards the town centre, it's a very attractive town, it does have a railway, unfortunately no railway station, there's a branch line down from Los Vivio on the Great Western Main Line, and when you are on the Great Western Main Line, it looks as though the line to Foy goes downhill, it doesn't, the line to Foy is level, it's the Great Western Main Line going towards Penzant, it's going uphill, so it's freight only though, now they have occasionally run passenger charter trains down there, whether they have a will I don't know, it'd be nice if they do perhaps we'll come down there, so I'm going to follow Esplanade now back to the town centre, where has that been, the biggest ship we've seen today out there, I'm going to go back to the town centre, get my bus back to Pal railway station, so I hope you enjoyed this video, thank you very much for watching, if you're in Cornwall you know, do come and visit Foy, it's a lovely town, lots to see here for Castle, it's worth a visit, it's a bit of an agressive walk but you might hopefully have a bit more time than I did today, so thank you very much for watching, please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment, and from the Esplanade in Foy, down in Cornwall, what a lovely summer's day, thank you very much for watching and goodbye