500 + views

Sierra de La Cabrera, On the ridge.

Towanroath pumping engine house served Wheal Coates tin mine. The mines extended well below sea level and far out to sea.

Taken from Parque Emir Mohamed I. March 2014

Another shot from my sister's new house. This was taken near the start of High Summer so the heat haze is obscuring the view of the mountains, sadly! Algete, Madrid Province

Well a fence after a fashion, but definitely a fence! Reskajeage, Cornwall. The sloping path on the cliff opposite is the path to Fishing Cove, the officially designated nudist beach. The path is FAR easier than it looks from here!

The West Penwith area at the extreme southwest of Cornwall is 100% granite.

The largest Plaza Mayor in Spain. I waited for ages for the guy in the pink shirt to shuffle off but he must have used up a whole reel of film! Mind you, there was probably a guy behind me ,,,

Shetland Ponies above Ralph's Cupboard, Portreath. They found something absolutely engrossing but I couldn't see nor guess what it was! They certainly ignored us completely! All they did, for a full 15 minutes, was stand stock still and stare straight ahead through the fence!

Samphire Island (or possibly Asparagus Island), Porthcadjack, Cornwall. I have never known which of the two islands is which. I asked a wizened old sea dog in a Portreath Pub once and he said in an almost impenetrable Cornish accent; 'Who the f... cares' I still don't know! In the very far distance, Godrevy Island and lighthouse.

Griffon vulture on El Cancho de La Bola, Sierra de La Cabrera. I know I've said this before and I know one or two of you don't like the thought but this granite boulder is only white because of 10,000 years of guano!

Sierra de La Cabrera. May 2012. Madrid Province

Near Penberth Cove, Porthcurno and Logan Rock, West Penwith, Cornwall. It actually is a rock window but I couldn't get the whole frame in the shot without falling off the cliff edge behind me. ... And that I would not do, even for my art!! :o)

Not sure what went on here. I took some night shots. All seemingly normal. On looking at this a few days later it seemed rather eerie, if not spooky! I don't know what the vague impression of a double image is exactly or even if it's here at all. But there is enough of a suggestion of ... something ... to give me goose bumps ! Taken in Hortaleza, Madrid.

Named for it's resemblance to the head of a gurnard, a tasty red fish caught around here. Its only drawback is its very spiny and bony nature, but the taste almost compensates! The main slab of cliff face (black, centre-right) houses the famous climb 'Right Angle'. You traverse to it across the lower rocks (mid-centre) and ascend the steep crack. Yes. I did it once (1978). A terrific mid grade climb! It was a very enjoyable climb, so much so that, more than any other climb from those years, I can remember almost every move!

Cornish granite sea-cliff scenery. Lichen and rock samphire in the foreground.

The cutest quoit in Cornwall (there are a few equally cute dolmens in Brittany and elsewhere in Europe). Neolithic burial chamber; would have originally been buried completely under a mound of smaller stones and earth but 6,000 years of Cornish weather has easily disposed of all that!

How many ducklings can you see? The answer is of course three. However, when I was about to take the shot I had 4 in the frame! I presume that one is completely hidden under or behind a lotus petal! It obviously had the same view of photos taken of it as my girlfriend!