For Sophie one of the pleasures of holidaying in Cornwall was the opportunity to take early morning walks along the cliff tops before everywhere became too busy. This morning she was out even earlier than normal after a restless night's sleep in the unusually high temperatures. As she set out at 6.30 a.m. the thermometer was showing 24 degrees. Deciding it was certainly not going to get any colder she set off wearing only a short pair of denim shorts and a little white crop top.
Strolling along the cliff top path she had a sense of wellbeing springing from a combination of a fit healthy body, fresh air and the sun on her back. She was reasonably familiar with this route, but after about 20 minutes she noticed what appeared to be a faint track leading to the cliff edge. Sophie had never noticed this before, and her sense of adventure made it inevitable that she would follow the track to see where it led. Shortly she was at the cliff edge and there she saw a path of sorts leading down the cliff to a rocky beach in a secluded cove. The path looked challenging in places but by no means insurmountable, so, having nothing better to do with her morning, she decided to follow it down to the beach.
Without ever feeling in any sort of danger she reached the beach with a sense of achievement and exhilaration following her efforts in negotiating the route down the cliff face. Now she was down Sophie decided to take a walk around the cove, checking out the rock pools for signs of life. So absorbed was she in search for nature that she was almost didn't see the two men wandering up the beach after an early morning swim. Aside from the fact that the beach did not look that well frequented, the sight would not have been particularly remarkable except for the fact that the two men were naked.