Today’s dawn reminded me of just how lucky I am to have such a stunning playground on my doorstep
This is my regular ‘before work’ bike ride – I am pleased I took the camera. You need to click through
If you have to shop – let it be in the souks of Marrakech
The narrow winding derbs
Tasty tajines
the riot of colours
textures
and tack
are all good
Strange as it seems, there is a long boat beached at Long Island, Poole Harbour.
Long Island, owned by the Rempstone Estate, was put on the market back in 2007 and big forbidding ‘PRIVATE KEEP OFF’ signs have since adorned its shores. Before this we had often landed to enjoy a picnic and short stretch here [...]
We rarely get any kind of surf on the South Coast in the summer – that is why there is a growing interest in sea kayaks. But July isn’t offering much sea kayaking weather. Windblown and messy at Highcliffe but enjoyable all the same
Snapped this morning
Are those dark bits storm clouds?
There’s no water locally and still no rain forecast – the white water season seems to have dried up, the third trip cancelled. It’s back to the sea kayak this weekend I guess.
Still I have a few river trips to foreign parts to look forward to
No Paddling this weekend
A few weekends without floating my boat – it was time to build a toy shed
Redend Defaced
A short paddle out to Old Harry took us past Redend Point on Studland at the weekend. Here the coloured sands, in the Redend Sandstone of the Eocene Poole Formation, are well-exposed (in more ways than one).
For the technical bit …. “Iron oxides have been reprecipitated in the sandstone at various horizons in an [...]
It’s a msitake to walk up Snowdon on a bank holiday monday. The queue stretched 5kms along and 800 metres up!
