From Utmost West
We joined the coastal footpath just a mile south of Land's End. What a place to have a picnic! How we missed the packaged experience and the retail opportunity!! Eventually, passing amorous seals and flights of gannets fishing close in shore, we came to the Church of St. Levan. St.Levan, famously, preached to the fishes. What, I wondered, might I say? Surely I would quote from St. Paul, "In him we live move and have our being." "God is the sea, then ?" I hear the fish reply reply, "Yes! Yes and no! More than the sea! More like the sea behind the sea!" But I said too much and thought too little! By the side of the church is a legendary stone The saint, so it is said struck it with his staff and split it! Others say, it was a famous pagan stone known as a place of fertility and that the round-headed celtic cross erected beside it was to Christianize it! To me the juxtaposition of stone and cross look li...