The picturesque view of a popular Cornish cove turned to something much more disgusting this weekend when raw sewage was released into the ocean.
Trevaunance Cove in St Agnes usually boasts turquoise – or at least greeny blue – seas, but on Sunday the vista became almost entirely brown.
Some blue could still be seen towards the edge of the sewage slick, however, demonstrating that the colour change was not down to the weather conditions but the release of human waste.
A local surfer shared footage of the grim sight with surfing magazine Carve, who posted footage online saying it was ‘Unbelievable. A dad just got out this arvo and said to his three-year-old “Best wash the sewage off…”
‘It is still stinking. No way am I surfing in that.’