In this blog post, I’ll share a little about our recent visit to the beach at West Portholland in Cornwall. You’ll also find lots of our travel photos and a video of the day at the end of this travel blog post.

Picturesque Portholland

Portholland is split into two sides and two separate hamlets. East Portholland and West Portholland. When the tide goes out then the beach becomes one for a short while. When it’s back in then it’s split into two separate coves.

Portholland is a picturesque and unspoilt dinky little place. If you want to stretch your legs more then the beach is a bit bigger on the east side and more sandy too.

The west side is a very small cove with a few cottages, farm and a couple of holiday homes. There seem to be more cottages to the east side and some websites say there are toilets and a café in the east, but we’ve never been to see. We tend to stick to the west side.

According to Visit Cornwall, there are only 40 residents in Portholland in total.

When the tide goes out then there is some sand on the west side. The kids love searching in the rocks for sea animals, climbing over the rocks and making sand castles. It’s super rocky and perfect for rock pooling!

Or making dinosaur cities! Reuben created a dinosaur city whilst Ben dug a channel of water from the rock pools to surround dinosaur city with water. We stayed until the tide came back in and washed away Dinosaur City! Nooooooo!