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Overlooking El Escorial, Las Machotas present a nice, relatively easy hill walk. The old drystone walls are interesting too. El Fraile = The Friar. The rock at the summit seems to represent the cowled figure of a friar! Best enlarged, at Carol's (Ecobird's) suggestion.

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).

Full screen, preferably! At low tide you can scramble on these rocks (they are submerged at high tide). Low tide increases the range of photo opportunities.

Porthcadjack, Portreath, Cornwall. August 01, 2012. High summer - and a filthy day! I'm sure most of you have (not all as I know a few are against) but, if not, PLEASE COMPLETE THE SURVEY VERY SOON. Z please.

Príncipe Pío metro and mainline railway station, Madrid

Basset Cove, North Cliffs, Cornwall. Lots of seaweed making rock-hopping a dangerous pastime. I treaded very gingerly and got past here eventually without mishap.

Taken on a very hot October day. This more or less encompasses the whole of the Sierra de La Cabrera (yes it is a small range but quite distinctive, standing out from the rest of the sierra). This shot is taken from near the summit of Mondalindo to the northwest. It overlooks the village of Valdemanco.

Tubby's Head, Cornwall

My low tide coastal shoreline walk at about the halfway mark. Mussels cling to the rocks. A bit small at this time of year but as it was September 1st, quite OK to collect them! (In Britain there is a saying that you should only eat oysters when there is an 'r' in the month; therefore August - no, September - yes. I know these aren't oysters but I stick to the same reasoning to do with their spawning season!)

It does have a name and it isn't this! Unfortunately, I forget what it is and I forget where I found out before! The wonderful world of Sierra de la Cabrera granite. In the distance, Pico de La Miel. I recall this as being the hottest day I have experienced in the sierra, so far!

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.

The very last photo I uploaded from my much-lamented Nokia N95 camera-phone (a much better camera than a phone, I would say!). The next day I dropped it in a piece of marshy ground and it was past recovering even though I tried to dry it out in a bag of rice, as recommended by all and sundry! The lichen on the rock really is this bright!

Photo taken in August 2014. I previously walked this stretch of coast path in the summer of 2010 and the path did indeed go straight across from this point! A massive land slip had occurred in those few years. Porthtowan and St Agnes Beacon can be seen. First posted on ipernity in 2018. Better on large.

The Promontory is commonly known as Logan Rock but it must have a proper name as Logan Rock only refers to a once rocking stone on the top. The area around the isthmus and a bit landward is the site of a defended ancient settlement called Trereen Dinas (South). 'South' to distinguish it from a similarly named ancient settlement site on Gurnard's Head on the north coast. But I just can't find out the name for the promontory as a whole!. Can you spot the two yachts?

August 2014. My mother's garden.

I got lost and followed this path only to find myself in a field with a bull. The next field also had a bull ... and the next. I couldn't escape them so, as nonchalantly as I could, I retraced my steps, adding over an hour to my journey!. But then it is Spain, after all!

La Sierra de La Cabrera, looking past Pena del Tejo (low but very interesting with its fantastic granite forms) towards Mondalindo (high but more conventional as mountains go!).

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.