Yarmouth, Isle of Wight

 The weather is set to be windy and showery all week and certainly yesterday felt that autumn has arrived. We had a walk looking out for Red squirrels but the only wildlife around was a young Kestrel hunting off a wire with no luck at all in the time we watched. Enjoyed getting out of the wind for a time in St James church

Colwell and Totland Bays, Isle of Wight

Staying on the Isle of White for a week. We are 3 mins walk from the beach and the coastal walk. Yesterday was grey and overcast when we started out walk to Totland but the sun came out later though not a great sunset. The area has had large landslides over several years so the area is full of skeleton trees and shell containing coat and rocks.

Burnham-on -Sea

A few images from a visit to Burnham-on-Sea on my way to Bristol on a very sombre overcast day. Burnham-on-Sea is part of the second longest beach in Europe with the iconic low lighthouse,  the remaining active lighthouse of three Burnham lighthouses  Whilst Burnham has one of the longest expanses of sand, it has the shortest pier in Britain.

 

Boscombe Pier

For our last evening in Dorset, we visited Boscombe as the sun went down and the lights came on  (images in approximate order of taking except the last taken before the pier illuminations). The pier lights give a lot of downward illumination so produced images under and around the pier that were very colourful. The pier has a very long history of failures from the first pier in 1889 to the present pier. Hopefully this one will stay structurally sound for a good many years. 

Cromer Crab Versus Gull

The children were crabbing off Cromer pier and then releasing them late in the afternoon under the Pier. The gulls lined up to take their pick of the crabs though this young bird seems a bit anxious about about what to do with the pincers! The light was particularly good after a heavy rain storm so I took some time doing portraits of adult Herring Gull plus Blackheaded Gulls