Lizard

Britain's most southerly point - a bleak and dramatic place. But whilst you will have to pay a fee to go to Land's End, Lizard Point is actually further south and you can park and look straight out over the sea, with nothing to pay except a modest parking charge. Lizard Point is run by the National Trust, and consequently has almost none of the heavy commercial development seen at Lands End.

Maritime museum and visitor centre based at the Lizard lighthouse. Exhibitions on the history of lighthouse keeping and tour of the lighthouse.

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.

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.

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.

Cliff walks, wild flowers, beach and geological features

Taste from a wide selection of ice cream flavours, explore the farm and visit the Bullpen gallery.

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.