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Watergate during the summer. Watergate Bay (Standard Written Form: Porth Tregoryan, meaning cove at Coryan's farmstead/village) [citation needed] is a long bay or beach flanked by cliffs centred two miles NNE of Newquay below the B3276 Newquay to Padstow road near the hamlet of Tregurrian in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Brian Cury, CEO and founder of EarthCam, Inc., launched EarthCam.com in 1996 to build a network of webcams offering views of destinations throughout the world. In 1999 it was claimed 20 people per day were adding their webcams to the website. [3] By 2006 the website was a Webby Award Winner in the Tourism category. [4]
Newquay (/ ˈ nj uː k i / NEW-kee; Standard Written Form: Tewynblustri) [citation needed] is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries with an airport and a spaceport, and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall, approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Truro and 20 miles (32 km ...
Padstow (/ ˈ p æ d s t oʊ /; Cornish Standard Written Form: Lannwedhenek [2]) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Wadebridge, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Bodmin and 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Newquay. [3]
The British Surfing Association, Newquay Surf Life Saving Club and the Newquay Boardrider Club are all based at Fistral Beach. [4] [5] [6] The Cribbar, a reef at the north end of the beach, causes waves to break when the swell is high. It is considered to be Cornwall's premier "big wave" location with wave faces as high as 30 feet (9.1 m).
Lusty Glaze (Cornish: Lostyn Glas, meaning "a place to view blue boats") [1] also known as Lusty Glaze Beach, [2] is a beach in Newquay, Cornwall. Lusty Glaze is privately owned, notably to the low watermark. For much of the year, the beach is open, free of charge to the public. The only access to the beach is via 133 steps.
Newquay Bay is a bay adjacent to Newquay in Cornwall, England. The bay is about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) wide, from Towan Head in the west to Trevelgue Head in the east, beyond which is Watergate Bay .
Newquay Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Newquay, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It operates two lifeboats , Atlantic 85 The Gladys Mildred (B-821) and D-class (IB1) Enid Mary (D-773).