Today's selection are the last images from my overnight trip to Millom in Cumbria.
Walking around the old harbour I came across a bench looking out across the water and so I sat to enjoy the sunset. It was a lovely spot, I could easily imagine a couple sitting together in what was really quite a romantic location.
As the light was fading the clouds look quite dark but as you can see from some of these images every cloud does have a silver lining.
Overlooking White Rock Beach and the old harbour at Haverigg is this old derelict lighthouse. Walking through the RSPB reserve a local dog walker helpfully informed me that this is the "old lighthouse" and the lighthouse in my post the other day is the "new lighthouse" even though both are long since out of use.
This one on its small hillock is well placed to have shone its light out into the bay as a warning to vessels approaching the harbour. I really liked this lighthouse and I enjoyed this part of the walk because of the rabbits bounding around the base. Who wouldn't enjoy seeing that?
Here we are again, on the edge of the Cumbrian Fells near Millom. Today's pictures focus on the cloudy skies (perhaps a common feature in this part of the country) but over the next few days you will see that the clouds gave way to a beautiful sunny clear evening.
The first picture shows the view from the campsite as I was pitching up around about 4pm. It looked a bit ominous but fortunately it did not develop into anything.
The campsite was along a narrow lane referred to on my Sat Nav as "the alley" but known locally as "the frying pan". The story behind the name is that about 100 years ago a man staying in a guest house on the lane had stayed out late at a local pub. He returned very late in a drunken state and then slept late in the morning. The landlady having had a disturbed night refused to serve the man breakfast and as a consequence he killed her. He was hanged for his crime in Carlisle.
The second picture was of clouds forming over Ulverston, they were quite dramatic, and I like the way the big Cumulus cloud rose up through the other layers of cloud.
Picture three is looking inland across the marina with a glimpse of the old harbour wall. The original harbour wall collapsed sometime around 1900. This a result of the old mine workings under the sea bed having caved in. The current marina was formed in 1905 when the "new" sea wall was built.
The final picture today is more about the shadows cast on the mountainside by the clouds and the glimpse of light breaking through.
Today I have spent the day in Snowdonia but the pictures I have chosen for my blog are from last weekends trip to Millom in Cumbria.
We have some really fantastic countryside in the UK and I had one of the best nights ever last Friday camping at a new site on the North West coast between Millom and Haverigg. There were no other campers on the site so it was really perfect. Over the next few days I will share some pictures from the trip, including my first attempt at shooting the night sky.
For today I have chosen some pictures of the sunset. The first is looking across the fields to Millom with the Cumbrian Fells in the distance, you can see Scafell Pike and Coniston (if you know what you're looking for).
The second image I took along one of the lanes near to the campsite, I love the evening light as it breaks through the trees.
The final picture was the view from my tent as the sun was setting, I don't think anyone can argue, that was a great view to end the day. After that I got some fish n chips with a helping of battered haggis for my supper before settling down to watch the stars. Mmmmm what a brilliant night.
