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Another solitary foxglove (no not the same one handheld for the camera!).

I don't tire of this place!

A little fun with editing

It's been a little while since my table made an appearance and I make no excuses for showing another shot of it! La Sierra de La Cabrera granite.

Well, I coudn't see a way down. Only reachable by boat I think. Near Porthtowan, Cornwall. St Agnes' Head and Beacon on the horizon.

Like an oil painting.

Left to right, El Cancho Largo, El Cancho Gordo and El Cancho de La Bola. Taken from the long distance footpath the GR10 (links Valencia and Lisbon).

Looking east from El Cancho Gordo. Mid distance the white rock of El Cancho de La Bola, home of Griffon vultures and at the end of the ridge, El Pico de La Miel.

It is possible, after much debate (and the jury is still out), that the islands from left to right are Asparagus and Samphire Islands (although not actually islands at low tide!).

A climbing weekend. The university climbing club. About to climb up the East side of Tryfan, in Snowdonia, North Wales. I am sitting second from the left. You see here a mix of professors, lecturers, students and one grandson (of the lady who took the shot!), 11 years old and the best climber of us all! This would have been in early 1978, The club was tiny - maybe a dozen members and it was called the SSEES Mountaineering Club, affiliated to the London University Mountaineering Club (SSEES = The School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies - now part of University College, London). Great times were had by all, from memory! Originally posted in ipernity 2018.

Crane Castle, an iron age defensive site. This has almost all succumbed to coastal erosion except for this bulwark which is on the cliff edge now but was built as the inner, landward, rampart.

The view towards Porthcurno from Logan Rock, Trereen Dinas (south)

Surmounting the overhang, El Cancho Largo. In many of my photos from La Sierra de La Cabrera you can see a mushroom shaped rock at the top of the crest and, indeed, it is the highest point of the Sierra. This is it in close up. I have posted shots from all angles, even from above, over the years. It is also The Guardian of the Mountains in a few other shots!

View from the slopes of El Cancho Largo to Mondalindo.

Godrevy Island and Lighthouse from Godrevy Point at low tide, Cornwall

The famous tin mine seen from the small granite projectory of Tubby's Head.

On Treaga Hill, which divides Ralph's Cupboard from Portreath Harbour

There's no obvious way up to the top of this island but once you know it (I followed a family who explained they picnicked here once a year - on their annual holiday - and had done so since before the last war!), it's a doddle! You can see a mine shaft and an adit or two on the opposite cliff.