Kynance cove and asparagus island, Cornwall

Whilst down in Cornwall, we paid a visit to Kynance Cove and asparagus island. Think it’s one of the nicest beaches I’ve ever been to in the UK, not only is it an absolutely stunning beach but it is so interesting and unique. It’s littered with huge black rocks and so many caves and caverns to explore. There is an eco-café owned by the National Trust at the top where you can grab a drink and look out of the amazing view. The Kynance Café, which opened for business in 1929, relied on spring water and on a generator for power. When the café became the property of the National Trust in 1999, the Trust renovated it and provided mains water and electricity.

We race down to make sure that we could get there while they were still low tide, because then you can walk around asparagus island which is a little formation of island. Just off Kynance Cove, named after the rare wild asparagus (Asparagus prostratus) found there. We missed the devils bellows though as I only found out about it when researching for my video. The Devil's bellows is a blowhole on Asparagus Island which was caused by the sea tunnelling along a fault. A second blowhole, the Post Office is so named because there is enough suction to post a letter in it.

The rocks are of specific geological interest and the cove is made up of a few small tidal islands and stacks, which were formed because the tremolite serpentine was broken into blocks and invaded by other types of rock, including granite and basalt.