Point Lookout
Thursday 4th April 2013, 2.45pm (day 588) This headland sits at the north-eastern corner of Stradbroke Island and lives up to its name, at least, if the sea is what you want to look at. So named by...
View ArticleMangrove tree, Redland Bay
Friday 5th April 2013, 9.55am (day 589) Pictured as we returned to the mainland from Stradbroke Island: that’s it on the horizon. I like this shot for the way the sea evokes a snowy moor in Yorkshire...
View ArticleSunset, Byron Bay and Mount Warning
Friday 19th April 2013, 5.40pm (day 603) Haven’t decided, in full, what I think of Byron Bay yet – ask me on Monday. However, it cannot be denied that it is a very photogenic place. The peak in the...
View ArticleSunset surfing
Sunday 21st April 2013, 5.05pm (day 605) I know I did this theme a couple of days ago but the beach was so photogenic this evening that I had little choice but to hit it again. Sorry…
View ArticleMouth of the Endeavour River, Cooktown
Thursday 9th May 2013, 11.10am (day 623) Some historical notes…. Cooktown is, fairly obviously, named for Captain James Cook, and this river for his ship, the Endeavour, which laid up here in 1770...
View ArticleApproaching the Yasawas
Thursday 16th May 2013, 10.00am (day 630) The Yasawa islands stretch in a more-or-less straight line into the Pacific ocean from a point somewhere to the north-west of the main Fijian islands, and are...
View ArticleKuata Island, at dusk
Wednesday 22nd May 2013, 5.25pm (day 636) The little island of Kuata is separated from Wayasewa by a few hundred yards of open water. It is uninhabited except for the basic resort which lies on the...
View ArticleGetting the boat back home
Thursday 23rd May 2013, 2.10pm (day 637) The boat that took us to the village trip a couple of days ago also serves as a kind of bus service between the two villages on the island of Wayasewa, this...
View ArticleMaria-Carme on the Nordnes peninsula
Friday 7th June 2013, 10.25pm (day 652) Maria-Carme is my hostess/contact/employer/friend in Bergen and almost every trip I have made here during the course of this blog has been down to her, so it’s...
View ArticleView of the Hjeltefjord, from Tjeldstø
Saturday 8th June 2013, 3.05pm (day 653) I have started going to certain places simply because I think there’s a chance that I might get a decent photo. Tjeldstø is a village near the end of a chain...
View ArticleThe Corniche, West Beirut
Monday 19th August 2013, 2.00pm (day 725) So, here I am in the country that used to be known as Phoenicia. If it wasn’t for these guys, the Cornish wouldn’t ever have had a tin industry. This is my...
View ArticleBrighton pier, Wednesday morning
Wednesday 9th October 2013, 9.15am (day 776) Finished work last night too late to get home, but not too late to get down to Brighton and spend the night there rather than in the suburbs. And, well,...
View ArticleCartmel Sands, Cumbria
Thursday 7th August 2014, 8.25am (day 1,078) The UK government hate public transport, and have done so, passionately, since the 1950s when they realised that, regardless of the effects on the...
View ArticleBraye Beach (and farewell to the Channel Islands)
Friday 17th August 2018, 10.35am (day 2,549) Yesterday’s rather sombre subject matter was matched by the Thursday weather on Alderney, but the sun returned today to brighten up our last day in the...
View ArticleChristmas Day, Morecambe Bay
Tuesday 25th December 2018, 2.55pm (day 2,679) The post-dinner Christmas Food Babies were walked off beside the melancholy greyness of Morecambe Bay. Clare serves as the model for the second time in a...
View ArticleMorecambe Bay, from Grange-over-Sands
Tuesday 5th February 2019, 8.55am (day 2,721) After Blackfriars the other day — another very good view from a railway station, namely that of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, located right on the shore of...
View ArticleEnd of the dyke (Prestatyn)
Saturday 2nd March 2019, 12.40pm (day 2,746) This monument stands on the north Wales coast, at Prestatyn, and marks one end of the Offa’s Dyke Path, which goes from here all the way down the...
View ArticleOn South Melbourne beach
Friday 12th April 2019, 2.35pm (day 2,787) Almost the whole population of Australia lives within about an hour’s drive of the coast, making this one of the world’s great beach countries, if not the...
View ArticleHowth harbour
Thursday 30th May 2019, 7.05pm (day 2,835) I am in Ireland for a couple of days. Why? Just because I could, and I needed the head-space, and I like going to new places. I’ve been to Dublin before, but...
View ArticleThe summit of Holyhead Mountain (county top #1)
Saturday 22nd June 2019, 10.45am (day 2,858) 24 hours in Holyhead, Anglesey, planned around the enjoyment of two of my principal leisure pursuits. The footie was yesterday, the walk today. As you can...
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