Falmouth is one of Cornwall's leading south coast resorts partly because of it's outstanding natural beauty and fantastic opportunities to see marine and other wildlife.

The Fal Estuary is a designated Special Area of Conservation (SAC), which is the highest marine habitat protection that can be afforded to an area by the European Union. It is also an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty indeed, one of the Fal Estuary's biggest attractions, outside of it's stunning natural beauty, is its abundance of wildlife.

The waters of the Fal Estuary are home to seals which can often be seen from Pendennis Head basking on Black Rock in the summer. They also welcome visits by playful dolphins, basking sharks and sunfish.

There is also plentiful birdlife in the form of cuckoos, kingfishers, owls, herons, shags, cormorants and wading birds not to mention the many types of seagull who will be after a bit of your pasty if you're not careful.

Pendra Loweth takes environmental concerns very seriously and employs an ongoing planting and woodland maintenance policy to ensure that our green areas remain undisturbed for the wildlife to enjoy and use.

We have not only worked hard to earn our prestigious David Bellamy Gold Award, we were one of the pioneers who set up the award scheme several years ago as one of the first environmental credentials that tourism businesses could aspire to.

We have on-site recycling and are constantly looking for new ways to be cleaner, greener and more efficient with the energy and water that we use.