The stage is all set......
for Rick Stein, complete with dozens of books to sign to open this year's fish festival.....
as 20,000 visitors are expected to make their way to newlyn to see lots of beef?!!**!! - what the folks have really come to see is......
chefs like Keir Miekle from the Navy Inn, Penzance......
Sue & Duncan Lucas from Passionate about Fish......
and the stars of the show, plenty of the fish that makes Newlyn famous......
and not forgetting the shellfish......
all these are now being promoted by local Farmer's markets......
behind the scenes and keeping things under control, Mr MCA, Mike Collier organises the IRB lifeboat team for their emergency demonstration in the harbour.....
over on the pontoons, and the real star of the show, Pete Goss, brother Andy and son Elliot are back 'home' from their incredible Australian odyssey with the Spirit of Mystery looking like she's never been away.....
here, Pete's brother Andy points to a few planks of Australian timber now fitted to the stern of the boat's dinghy which has its own adventure story after having spent seven months adrift before washing ashore on King Island after being torn from the deck when the Spirit capsized off the Australain coast on the final leg, !
