Best Cornish Harbours with walls for jumping off into the sea from

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I'm obsessing about starting to plan our summer holiday. The highlight of any Cornish break for my DC is jumping off a harbour wall into the sea. We've been to

• Charlestown
• Mousehole
• St Ives
• Polruan

and through obsessive google maps usage I've always managed to pick a holiday location with harbour walls that are suitable!

I was wondering if anyone else has DC with similar views, and if they'd recommend any other locations?

Sennen Cove.

Such a dangerous thing to allow your dc to do

Don’t do it it’s dangerous

St Mawes at high tide

Erm, I grew up with no H & S input at all but this is bonkers. Tombstoning is uber-stupid.

Stupid idea.

Surely no one would want their kids doing this? 😂

One with a hospital a& e department very near
absolute madness

This is a thing?
I'd do it, I love water and I'm a bit silly but not something I'd encourage my DCs to do and they're teens!

Pier jumping can be done reasonably safely if you know how to do it, the right tides and the seabed in your chosen location.
Charlestown are cracking down on it now but it's still popular.
Polkerris, near Fowey is a safe place, with a double height wall.
Gorran Haven?
I've seen people jumping a lot at Lamorna but am not that familar with it.

Jesus. It's really dangerous. I was watching kids doing this in St Ives last summer, with my heart in my mouth.

Porthleven and Boscastle although Porthleven is closer to treliske.

And a coroner and mortuary.

This

Jumping off a harbour wall (into deep water with no obstacles on the sea bed in a safe manner well clear of passing boats) is an exhilarating experience.
I let my children do it, I do it.
Like bouldering or tree climbing or other 'extreme' sports, it's a great way to learn how to assess risk and deal with adrenaline and peer pressure.

😂mumsnet oh how I love thee!

thanks for the helpful replies!

this!

Kids do this in our seaside town. They unfortunately don’t survive. It’s so dangerous and irresponsible. Just don’t.

They call it tombstoning for a reason, mate.

The RNLI don’t like dragging bodies out on the sea.

I live in Cornwall (albeit the north) and harbourmasters are testing their hair out every summer trying to stop this. It’s dangerous and irresponsible. Google it.

People have died or been paralysed doing this. It’s so stupid to encourage your DC to do it.

Madness

It's not called Tombstoning for nothing ...

Tombstoning and hoofing yourself off a harbour wall that you know the depth and conditions of are wildly different.

What do you think we all do with our time in Devon and Cornwall in the summer as teens...?

OP Clovelly is a good one, although it's not Cornwall, it's just over the border in Devon.