Portreath Cornwall 365
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Waves Breaking on the Beach at Portreath
Place: »Portreath
Category: »Beaches
About: The early evening light shows off the waves crashing onto the beach at Portreath. At low tide on this side of the beach there are rocks exposed and a trip across these rocks leads to a natural swimming pool.
Photograph Added: 27th January 2008
Rought Water And Pier
Place: »Portreath
Category: »Coastline
About: Heavy seas hitting the pier at Portreath. The historic harbour at Portreath was an important site for the export of tin and copper to Wales to be smelted.
Photograph Added: 24th January 2008
Portreath Harbour
Place: »Portreath
Category: »Harbours and Ports
About: Early evening at Portreath harbour on a windy day when the sea was fairly rough shows how calm the inner harbour can be. The harbour at Portreath began construction in about 1760 and in 1827 it was described as perhaps Cornwall's most important port.......
Photograph Added: 23rd January 2008
Gull Rock at Portreath
Place: »Portreath
Category: »Sunsets and Sunrises
About: This image of Gull Rock in the setting sun is instantly recognisable to anyone who has ever visited Portreath. It impossible to miss this wonderful rock that sits so majestically out at sea almost in the middle of the bay.
Photograph Added: 18th January 2008
Portreath Pier in the Evening
Place: »Portreath
Category: »Night
About: This almost surreal photograph of Portreath Pier was taken in the early evening and the long exposure seemed to highlight the structure and dull the background sea.
Photograph Added: 7th January 2008
Pensive Surfer at Portreath
Place: »Portreath
Category: »Surfing
About: This would be surfer had no idea we were taking his photograph as he stood at the waters edge trying to decide the best place to enter the sea.
Photograph Added: 3rd January 2008
About Portreath Cornwall.
Portreath is a small resort located about 5 miles north of Redruth. It was once a busy port, importing coal and exporting copper but today only the occasional fishing boat shelters in its very narrow harbour. Copper ore was at one time transported from mines in the Chacewater area. Horse-drawn wagons were originally used for this task and the ore was then shipped by the ton to Swansea for smelting. On the return journey the ships would be laden with Welsh coal. The narrow harbour entrance was difficult and tremendous skill must have been needed to navigate sailing ships into and out of the port. Some of the ships would be carrying well over a hundred tons of ore.
At Portreath there is a lovely sandy beach with a stream running down to the sea on the left hand side. The beach is very popular with families and like many beaches on the north Cornish coast Portreath is also very popular with surfers. Bodyboarders arrive at high tide on big swells to surf the harbour wall, or Vortex, as it is known. At low tide there are rock pools to explore and a fairly large natural swimming pool in the rocks. Gull Rock sits majestically in the sea and has been the subject of many photographs over the years and a variety of sea birds have made the rock their home
Portreath has a small assortment of shops and cafés but it is the holiday trade which is now the bread and butter of the area.. The village is very welcoming and caters for most of the needs of tourist but it is not over commercialised.
Parts of the old tram- road that was once used for transporting ore from the mines has now been made into cycle paths and today it possible to cycle from Portreath on the north coast to Devoran on the south coast.
During the season the beach is cleaned daily and dogs are banned on the beach from Easter Day to 1st October each year
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