Traveled near the city of Falmouth to go see the two Tudor era gun forts that protected the bay entrance from French and Spanish warships. Built on either side of the river mouth, Pendennis Castle and St. Mawes Castle were designed so that their fields of fire would overlap any ship trying to go upstream.

Pendennis was a bit more notorious, in my mind, as it was run by the Killigrews. While they did protect the bay, they also ran a pirate side business against French and Spanish ships passing through the Channel. As these were enemies of England everyone looked the other way. My understanding is that not all of the ships raided were enemies of England and Lady Killigrew eventually had to appeal to Queen Elizabeth to get out of trouble.

To get from one castle to the other I got to take a short ferry ride.

If I had tried to skip the ferry it would have added another hour to the drive.

That was pretty much it for the day. I ended with dinner at the Ship Inn again.

I had wanted the salmon dish but it wasn’t on the menu they handed me. Still, the couple next to me managed to get it. Ah, well; next time.

I leave Mousehole tomorrow and continue my journey further north.