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I saw a lot of these in 2012 / 2013. I have seen very few since! Interesting fact: shot taken at midsummer and dawn is incredibly late (for us Brits), at 6 am approx. It means that ther are some days, even in summer, when I leave to take an early morning class and return after an evening class, when I don't get to see daylight at all! And that is depressing! Unlike some of my sunrise / sunset shots there was very little editing done here, just the frame and some cropping (from memory - it was 5 and a half years ago).

Sierra de La Cabrera, Lozoya Valley behind. An incredibly hot late summer's day.

View towards Bosigran, Rosemergy, Pendeen Watch and Morvah from the lower slopes of Carn Galva. The granite field-walls (called 'hedges' in Cornwall) seen here in the middle distance, and present in much of the coastal-shelf areas of West Penwith are reputed to be the oldest 'continuously used - for their original purpose - man made structures anywhere on Earth'.

We made a partially visible message on the wall here: '01/11/2017 Hiking Madrid'! The tunnel is 3 km long and on a curve, so the light at the end of the tunnel soon disappears! I occasionally walk with Hiking Madrid and today was the All Souls Day holiday walk called the Walk of the Day of the Dead. It followed this disused railway line UNDER La Sierra de La Cabrera. But this tunnel hides a sad tale of forced labour under the Franco regime. The tunnel was dug by prisoners, many of them political prisoners, over time and the railway line was finally opened in 1968. It was never financially viable and the last recession killed it off. It closed in 2012. When I first started walking in the Sierra de La Cabrera in 2011, I saw the trains occasionally and I hadn't realised the line had closed until this walk along the line and through the tunnels was advertised!

A mix of my English siblings and their children, my Spanish in-laws - I mean my sister's very Spanish family - and my girlfriend who at the last moment turned her head away from the camera, as usual!

The Cornish coast near Newdown's Head, St Agnes. Fog soon to roll in off the Atlantic. Fortunately I was only 20 minutes walk from my car.

A little further distant, Crane Islands and in the far distance, Godrevy Island and Lighthouse. This is taken directly above the sea cave, shown a few shots back.

Mutton Cove below, is a famous seal beaching place. In the distance is St Ives Bay and the peninsula of West Penwith. Shot taken from Reskajeage. Best on z.

Godrevy, from Reskajeage, Cornwall

From above St Agnes Head. The islands are named Bawden Rocks on Ordnance Survey maps but traditionally known as Man and His Man, a much better name I feel! Good on black and full screen.

Yup. me (on the right). A very cold walk. This is somewhere between Tryfan and Glyder Fach, not far from the Bristly Ridge. Snowdonia, Wales.Old friends from uni. A shot from 1979, 1980 or 1981.

This lot were superb! Even I felt moved to give a little something!

Truro Cathedral, Cornwall

The white, guano-stained, rock up above, is where I creep up to as quietly as I can to take photos of the Griffon vultures that normally occupy this place. it is estimated that this huge precariously sited boulder is so white because Vultures have been here since the end of the last ice age, therefore 8 - 10,000 years. Enough time for a serious staining problem to develop! Sierra de La Cabrera, Madrid Province. Also, one of these granite hot heads is going to get red-carded for a head butt soon, probably both of them!

View from Carn Marth to Carrick Roads (Falmouth Docks just about visible), Cornwall. Yes, there is a fence in there! Photo from 2011, first posted on ipernity 2016. Montbretia and heather in the foreground.

Surfers would love this place but they have a problem; getting their boards down to this beach. Some do but very few! There are no 'friendly ' paths down: you need to know how to get here and then it is only possible at low tide. Not worth it when you can go to the Cornish surfing capital of Newquay a few miles up the coast!

The Promontory (actually just inland from it) is the site of the hillside fort of Treryn Dinas (South). The south in the name is due to the fact that there is a similarly named hillfort at Gurnard's Head on the north coast called, unsurprisingly, Treryn Dinas (North). For Pam.

La Sierra de La Cabrera. granite and juniper.