Hunstanton Cliffs, Beach and Fulmars

We were very lucky to have a beautiful sunset for the end of our RPS day in Hunstanton. I spent a time photographing the Fulmars as they flew in and out from the cliff - their straight wing flight reveals their close relationship to albatrosses. Later views of the cliffs and wonderful rock shapes and colours took over. Even found someone with a Field Camera on the beach.

All the Fun of the Fair at Hunstanton

One of our subjects for the RPS walk around Hunstanton was 'A Long Way from Summer' and certainly the Fun Fair in its winter state emplifies this well.

  

Hunstanton Sunset

We are spending a couple of nights in Hunstanton and our first evening gave us a beautiful sunset.

Close Up at Wimpole

Despite the continuing grey skies , we decided on a walk at Wimpole yesterday and I tried out a new family camera - an Olympus Tough compact which can withstand the most-adverse weather conditions and underwater work as well as dropped and otherwise abused. It has quite a few complicated close up features including a microscope setting that allows extreme closeups. I took a few leaf and lichen images (images 1, 4, 6 and 9) and generally impressed considering the greyness of the day and the small sensor size.

A Bit of Time to Catch Up on Processing etc

 I have been trying to use the Christmas break to catch up on adding galleries to my website, which replaced my previous long-standing one about 6 months ago. I am making slow but steady progress, the latest addition being some colour images from a trip in 2017 to Iceland. A good antidote to some of our recent very drab grey days!!

Greetings to All Friends Near and Far

Christmas still  holds wonder for a 7 year old - not sogood for parents and grandparents at 6 am

Visit to Welney

Since our last visit in November (https://pin-sharp.blogspot.com/2019/11/welney-floods.html), the floods did recede for a short while but all the recent rain has filled the Ouse Washes levels even higher so there is now no shallow water for dabbling ducks and waders. It was mainly Pochard plus Tufted ducks on the main area plus Grey-lag Geese flying in and out periodically.

We had Meredith with us and she had great fun identifying all the birds and then great delight in dissecting some Owl Pellets in the activity room.