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One of the world's greatest satellite communication centres, located at Goonhilly downs. The site used to have a visitors centre, but this has been closed for some years, though there are on-again off-again plans to re-open it. However, the nature reserve that surrounds that site allows some good views of the dishes, as well as having some splendid, unspoilt natural beauty, and an ancient standing stone within site of the space-age facility.
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large radiocommunication site located on Goonhilly Downs near Helston on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, Britain. Owned by Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd under a 999-year lease from BT Group plc, it was at one time the largest satellite earth station in the world, with more than 30 communication antennas and dishes in use. The site also links into undersea cable lines.
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Oddly, the next nearest analogue to the "dive resort" in Britain is just next door. Kennack Diving is a PADI centre that operates out of the Sea Acres holiday park (heated pool used for training), and work alongside Porthkerris Divers. Guided dives available.
Essentially a few pools containing seals, although the cute baby ones on the promotional leaflet are only likely to be present during the baby season; but the older and more infirm seals who can't be released back into the wild are there all year round.
Taste from a wide selection of ice cream flavours, explore the farm and visit the Bullpen gallery.
Has subtropical plants with year-round colour. Admission is around £11 for adults, £5.50 for children 5-11 years and children below 5 go free, special concessions also apply.
The Lizard peninsula is renowned for outstanding diving. The Manacles reef just offshore has some of the best reef diving in the UK. Porthkerris Divers is the main outfit on the Lizard itself (though the operators in Falmouth also cover most sites on the Lizard). Porthkerris is unusual in the UK in being one of the nearest things you'll find to self-contained dive "resort". The site itself has excellent shore diving with some beautiful reefs that provide a wide variety of possibilites from trainees up to more experienced drift dives. Being east facing the shore sites are sheltered from prevailing westerlies, so are rarely blown out. On site facilities include accommodation (self catering cottages, studios, and camping pitches - hookups available), cafe, toilets/showers, dive shop (with kit hire), gas fills, 2 hard-boats, guided shore dives, BSAC and PADI tuition with on-site training pool, and easy parking/unloading right on their beach. Camping and beach is dog-friendly. Be aware the access road is steep and very narrow with tight, blind corners so take care when towing.
Cliff walks, wild flowers, beach and geological features