Cornwall Gweek seal sanctuary
Dec 30th, 2018, 05:01 AM
#1
Cornwall Gweek seal sanctuary
We get alot of coverage on Cornwall but last week I dropped over on a balmy 10C winter's day to see the seal sanctuary at Gweek.
https://www.visitsealife.com/gweek/d...nctuary-zones/
Access is, of course, via a single vehicle wide road (passing places do exist) and the tiny town has about 200 houses and about 100 yachts in the marina. On the east side of the estuary you find a seal sanctuary. Buying the tickets on line gives you a small price reduction, but of course the idea is not to keep money away from this work but to give money.
The slope holds around 20 tanks of varying sizes, at the top of the hill are pens for recovering young seals injured or hungry or just not weaned. Down the hill there are tanks where adolescent seals are learning to get on with others, where large groups are waiting to be released or old codgers are living out their lives in safety because they are blind, brain damaged etc. Then there are tanks with ranges of other types of (non-uk seals/sealions, some ejected from zoos which can no longer look after them. Amongst these are some real stars of stage and screen.
Then there is a warm penguin enclosure and an otter sanctuary. Needless to say feeding time is a good time to get there.
In the summer there is a bus to take you around, but since this was 26 Dec we walked it, one coffee shop open (not used by us) and a gift shop with some sensible stuff.
Just up the road is a very welcoming pub, good food, beer and staff and everyone there (from a lot of countries) were felt very welcome.
https://www.visitsealife.com/gweek/d...nctuary-zones/
Access is, of course, via a single vehicle wide road (passing places do exist) and the tiny town has about 200 houses and about 100 yachts in the marina. On the east side of the estuary you find a seal sanctuary. Buying the tickets on line gives you a small price reduction, but of course the idea is not to keep money away from this work but to give money.
The slope holds around 20 tanks of varying sizes, at the top of the hill are pens for recovering young seals injured or hungry or just not weaned. Down the hill there are tanks where adolescent seals are learning to get on with others, where large groups are waiting to be released or old codgers are living out their lives in safety because they are blind, brain damaged etc. Then there are tanks with ranges of other types of (non-uk seals/sealions, some ejected from zoos which can no longer look after them. Amongst these are some real stars of stage and screen.
Then there is a warm penguin enclosure and an otter sanctuary. Needless to say feeding time is a good time to get there.
In the summer there is a bus to take you around, but since this was 26 Dec we walked it, one coffee shop open (not used by us) and a gift shop with some sensible stuff.
Just up the road is a very welcoming pub, good food, beer and staff and everyone there (from a lot of countries) were felt very welcome.
Dec 30th, 2018, 11:00 AM
#2
Gosh, it's years since we went to the Seal Sanctuary, Bilbo. Thanks for reminding me. When we first moved to Cornwall we lived in nearby Constantine and having children who were then of an age to enjoy such things, we went a few times, plus we had friends who lived in Gweek so we also frequented the pub which sounds as if it hasn't changed much. However being an oenophile you might also have liked the rather more upmarket Trengilly Wartha which is not far away on the outskirts of Constantine and has an excellent range of wines by the glass and used to run its own wine merchants. Plus in Constantine itself there is the wonderful Post Office which as well as stocking probably the biggest range of whiskies this side of Bristol also has a great selection of clarets and burgundies. Walking the kids to school every morning was torture.
Perhaps next time.
Perhaps next time.
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