Live Webcams in St Ives

St Ives, on a granite peninsula at the tip of Cornwall, is a fishing town that became an artists’ colony, and the live webcams in St Ives watch the harbour that started both: boats settling onto the sand as the tide goes out, the lifeboat slipway, the pubs along the wharf and the beaches either side of the headland where the surf comes in. The tide is the show, emptying and refilling the harbour twice a day. St Ives keeps Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+0, and UTC+1 in British summer; the light the painters came for is best in early morning and late afternoon, and in summer the wharf stays busy until dark. Barbara Hepworth worked here from 1939 until her death in 1975, and her studio is a museum. May to September for the town in full swing; a winter storm on the harbour wall is worth watching too.