Our hotel in St Ives overlooks the beach so a couple of images from the window this morning before going down onto the beacharound 7am. It started overcast allowing some long exposures of the waves in both directions with beautiful green, blue and orange tones. Gradually the sky cleared and, as the sun came up, the colours changed to golden tones.
We have spent the day on a coach travelling down to St Ives in Cornwall for a short break and left in beautiful autumn sunshine which made even the M5 services look attractive. As we entered Devon, the clouds have gathered and soon rain came. We tried a walk after dinner but proved too heavy even for me! We may be visiting quite a lot of indoor attractions in the next 3 days. (Taken with an old pocket-sized Sony RX100 converted to Infrared)
Paxton Pits has areas of wet woodland where mosses, lichens and, at this time of year, am interesting mix of small fungi can be found.
On Saturday at Brandon, I used a UV light on a variety of toadstools and must research what causes the consistent different colours that are emitted under this light source. At Santon Downham was well as finding a wide range of new species, we tried using a smoke machine and a crystal ball with some of the toadstools growing on the abundant branches and in the pine cones. I photographed what I thought was a small beetle and it turned out to be a sheep tick while the white '?gall' from Saturday is a Sputnick Spider's egg sac.
