Venture on to the roof of the East Wing and the terraces which were added in the Victorian era. This will allow you amazing views across to Marazion, down to Penzance on one side and The Lizard on the other. You have to pop into the Blue Drawing Room, a fine example of the Strawberry Hill Gothick or Rococo style. The room includes family portraits by Gainsborough, Reynolds and Cornwall’s own John Opie plus some gorgeous Chippendale chairs. The Blue Drawing Room includes portraits by Gainsborough, Reynolds and Cornwall’s John Opie Of all the treasures in the castle, the one that James St Aubyn would save before anything else is an unlikely item. It’s a model of the mount made from champagne corks by Henry Lee, butler in the 1930s, and is beautifully to scale. Nearby is an Opie portrait of Dolly Pentreath, who, of course, was the last person to only speak the Cornish language and who lived in nearby Mousehole. The Garrison Room features a magnificent Samurai suit of armour from around 1800s and many ancient Syrian war items, all brought back to the mount by previous members of the St Aubyn family. After several hours on this magical island, the tide was in so head boatman Mike Greig took me back to shore on the circuitous journey around the island.