The key landscape characteristic of this section of Cornwall National Landscape is Rame Head which forms a southerly point at the extreme east of Whitsand Bay, which sweeps in a wide arch west to Portwrinkle. Behind the headland, the steep slope of a narrow winding valley almost severs Rame Head from the rest of the peninsula. The contrast between the urban sprawl of Plymouth stretching eastwards across Plymouth Sound, which is connected to protected landscape by the passenger ferry at Cremyll, could not be more different from this quiet wooded corner of the Cornwall AONB. Woodlands line the coastal tracks between Cawsand and Penlee Point and the extensive woodland enclosure of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park provide a home for a herd of some 600 wild fallow deer.