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On the south west coastline in Cornwall

The farthest tip of Cornwall is a special place for me. I’ve been going there since I was very young. In particular the coast from Penzance around to St Ives has a wide variety of scenery, small harbours, cliffs, beaches, lighthouses, remains of mining and other antiquities and even some moorland. [...]

Sennen Cove to Lands End

We headed for Sennen Cove early on one of the mornings in Cornwall and walked from there to Lands End. Sennen is a beautiful area and the beach is great – usually crowded with surfers if there is a good swell it was almost deserted when we got [...]

Heading down the coast

I’m just back from a break in Cornwall. We stayed in the far west close to Penzance. Heading down there it was a good day weather wise so we stopped off on route to make the most of the sunshine.

First stop was the small cove of Chapel Porth. It [...]

On the beach

The title of a Neville Shute novel that I loved about a post apocalyptic world – while the scenario is different now maybe there are some echos – but I digress

I found this while wandering the beach the other evening. It was obviously carefully sculpted by someone who [...]

Around the northern arm of the Bay

I’d not been out around the Bay for a while and so I decided to take a look around the northern arm of the Bay wandering from Torquay around to Hope’s Nose and beyond.

One of the iconic sites of Torbay is Thatcher Rock. As seen above from Meadfoot beach [...]

Sunset on the coast

Trying to take advantage of both the weather and the presence of the volcanic ash cloud I headed for the coast for sunset last night. This post might be a little rough as it has been a busy day and I am about to go out to catch sunset tonight. However the images [...]

On the edge of the water

It has been raining quite a bit over the past few days and the ground on the moors would be very wet so, given a forecast of reasonable weather, I headed towards the coast. The Little Egret seen above is not an uncommon species in the West Country these days [...]

Aspects of Plymouth

It was a while since I had headed in the direction of Plymouth however I had to go there anyway so the camera was with me. I visited various spots on the eastern side of the Sound including Bovisand and Jennycliff.

I got this shot of a frigate heading out [...]

Back from a break

Just back after four days mostly on the South West Coast path between Minehead and Woolacombe. With something over 400 images to sort through it will be a day or two before I can get what I want on here and elsewhere but I thought I’d put on a taster [...]

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