Porth Curno is a magnificent anchorage. We arrived close to sunset, the night before we were due to head over to the Isles of Scilly. 

The holding was strong and the anchor bedded in well to the sand bottom. The beaches are stunning as are the dramatic cliffs which surround them.

The dingy ride to the beach is short but beware the depth drops off quite quickly and when the swell starts to come in this quickly turns into decent sized breaking waves on the beach, which, as we found out, made for getting the dingy back off the beach a bit tricky.

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It was a bit rolley in the anchorage in the morning though and made conditions onboard fairly uncomfortable before we set sail.