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Ocean Swimming

Ocean Swimming

View from the chalk hills down to the Atlantic Ocean and a swimmer enjoying 30C heat in August.


Beachyhead

Beachyhead

The cliffs on the south coast have all been thrown up from the ground unevenly, so as you walk along, you can see the ground in front of you. This was taken looking in an even line straight ahead.


Boat House

Boat House

Quiet little boat house at Birling Gap in the Seven Sisters hills on the south coast of England.


Waves

Waves

Pattern of the waves on the beach at Birling Gap on the south coast of England.


White Cliffs

White Cliffs

The chalk cliffs of the Seven Sisters hills near Beachyhead on one of the hottest day of the year.


Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters

On the south coast of England, in the Seven Sisters chalk hills, lies Birling Gap. Even on the hottest day of the year the beach is quiet and you can see for miles.


Beginning of autumn

Beginning of autumn

Leaves start to fall in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire.


Seawall

Seawall

Vancouver seawall at the beginning of autumn.


Grant Narrows

Grant Narrows

The Grant Narrows boat launch at the Pitt Polder Ecological Reserve, British Columbia.


Pitt Polder

Pitt Polder

The marsh at the Pitt Polder Nature Reserve, British Columbia.


Sorbus

Sorbus

Two different shades of Sorbus.


Summer blooms

Summer blooms

Wildflowers in the churchyard of the tiny St. Faiths church in Llanfoist, Wales.


Hedera Trunk

Hedera Trunk

Ivy overgrowing on stone walls in the Welsh village of Llanfoist is not stopped by anything.


Ivy

Ivy

The window slightly modernised bathroom in the basement of Abergavenny Castle in Wales is slowly being overgrown with ivy.


Abergavenny Castle

Abergavenny Castle

The view from Abergavenny Castle in a ferocious passing Welsh rainstorm – you can see the mountains to the left of the building in the view but not the right.


Garden

Garden

The crumbling walls of the 900 year old Tintern Abbey are alive with thistles and daisies and toadflax and all sorts of grasses!


Light Shadow

Light Shadow

In the dark shadow of Tintern Abbey, the crack of light that creeps across the grass is the perfect shape of the ancient front gates.


Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey

The haunting ruins of Tintern Abbey, in south Wales.


Hazardous surface

Hazardous surface

An open closed road, right off the main road across Unst.


Westing

Westing

Bus shelters in Unst are strangely accommodating, and often have chairs in or around them, even when on the main and only road across the island.


Limpets

Limpets

A group of limpets at Norwick Beach, a place of geological interest as a site where oceanic crust was pushed up and stranded on continental crust 420 million years ago.


The Fog

The Fog

Fog near Belmont, Unst. It came rolling in, in a heavy wall under bright August sun.


St Olaf

St Olaf

Peeking inside the ruins of tiny St Olaf’s Kirk in west Unst, Shetland.


Field

Field

Quiet field near a ruined 12th century viking church at sunset.