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Cliffs, Thistle and Rocks

12 Jul

Our eldest daughter who lives in Exeter is with us this weekend to see M and they have all spent all day catching up. We went off to Chapelporth for high tide this evening in the Cornish mist and had a good walk up to Wheal Coates. Sadly the cloud cover is too great for us to see tonight’s super moon.  Click on any photo in the gallery for detail of the rocks that I found built into the wall of Wheal Coates or the sea.

Tide almost in at Chapelporth
Heather on the cliffs
Dog on the cliff edge
Thistle flower
Wheal Coates
Rock1
Rock2
Rock3
Rock4

 

 
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Posted by on July 12, 2014 in Beauty, Chapel Porth, Cornwall, environment, family, Happiness, nature, photography, Postaday 2014

 

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Lichens, Rocks and Waves

22 Aug

1   There were lichens galore on our walk around Botallack Mine and the cliff tops today. They are so varied and so beautiful.

Feathery lichen

Mixed lichen

Glorious lichen

2   Tin and copper have been mined here for hundreds of years The historian John Norden wrote of the fact that the hamlet of ‘Botallock‘ was ‘a little hamlet on the coaste of Irishe sea most visited with tinners, where they lodge and feede, being nere theyre mynes’ in 1590 and there is evidence all around of rocks and minerals, layers of red, green, black, brown. I found this beautiful shiny purple bit in a wall. Does anyone know what it is?

Purple mineral in the rock

Botallack Crowns

Beautiful rock

Red rock

3   The only humans around, we sat high up on the cliffs and watched and listened to the waves, the sea birds, and a kestrel hunting.

Waves crashing onto the rocks below

Perched atop the cliffs

Blowing in the wind

A Ginger Fairing ice-cream finished off the beautiful day rather well!

Ginger Fairing ice-cream

This last is just for a laugh and was found in a treasure of a shop in St Just. We followed this very good advice!

 
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Posted by on August 22, 2012 in Cornwall, environment, local history, nature, senses, Uncategorized

 

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