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Masts, Splashes and A Notable Gravestone

1   The morning started out full of sunshine and cerulean skies so we went to Mylor where the water just rippling was causing the reflections of the masts to create beautiful zig zags.

Masts at Mylor 19:1:2014

Masts at Mylor 19:1:2014

2     The water splashing onto the rocks made a lovely pattern.

Splashes

Splashes

3   Isn’t it touching that, two hundred years on, people have marked the tragedy of the ship, Queen’s Transport, being wrecked off Trefusis Point on January 14th 1814? The stone itself is beautifully carved with the lightning, the stormy waves and the ship going down so graphically depicted.

100 years on

200 years on

 

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