The Prime Minister and his wife braved blustery showers at the weekend to enjoy lunch during their annual Cornish holiday.
David and Samantha Cameron visited a beach-front cafe in the village of Polzeath, on the North Cornwall coast, where they shared a bowl of local mussels on the terrace during a gap in the rain.
Kato Harrison, the cafe's manager, said the couple stayed for about 45 minutes, sharing a bowl of the Porthilly Mussels Mariniere, made with mussels from the Camel Estuary around four miles away.
The Camerons were among tens of thousands of holidaymakers in Devon and Cornwall who were faced with dodging prolonged showers on Saturday.
Mr Cameron wore a short-sleeved polo shirt for the lunch, including a pint of ale, overlooking the beach and crashing Atlantic waves in the popular surfing resort.
But his wife played it safe in the face of the changeable weather with a long-sleeved coat.
The couple are on holiday until next weekend, although Mr Cameron will return to London for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games on Wednesday.
The Prime Minister, who revealed the trip to the Western Morning News in June, and Mrs Cameron arrived in the Westcountry following a break in Spain last week.
It is the third year in a row Mr Cameron and his family has spent part of Parliament's summer recess in Cornwall.
The Westcountry is a favourite holiday spot of the Camerons, but their breaks to the region tend to make headlines.
In 2010, the Prime Minister's wife, Samantha, gave birth to the couple's fourth child, Florence.
Born four weeks early at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, she was given a Cornish middle name – Endellion – to mark the county of her birth.
Last year, Mr Cameron had to cut short his holiday to chair a meeting of the National Security Council on Libya as Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's rule was falling.
Heavy rain swept across the region over the weekend with nearly an inch of rain falling in some areas in the space of 24 hours on Saturday. At Cardinham, near Bodmin, 18.4mm (0.7ins) of rain was recorded with 11.8mm (0.5ins) in Plymouth. The forecast is not looking any better for Bank Holiday Monday today.
Met Office forecaster Helen Chivers said: "Unfortunately the Westcountry is not the place to be on Monday.
"We have got a big weather system moving in from the Atlantic and it will be raining from very early in the day and will be windy as well. There should hopefully be some shelter on the north coast with the rain easing from time to time but it is just going to be a grey, wet and windy day."
The summer has been littered with events which have fallen foul of the weather. The latest was the annual Altarnun duck race on Saturday which is held in aid of the parish church of St Nonna.
It had to be cancelled for the first time in more than 20 years as Penpont Water became a muddy torrent. The winning numbers had to be pulled out of a hat.
