“Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet”
No apologies for quoting the great William Butler Y but this autumn trip to Tibbetts has sort of become a fixture in my calendar year and the early October weather can be at lottery, previously it has been deck chairs, gin cocktails and swooping swallows but not this time. Everything exists. A gentle voyage out with not much wind but a long range swell made the Oldenburg swagger like a gentle early evening drunk, but a SW gale meant we had to pay the supplement and be helicoptered back to Hartland Point (which has interesting geology btw).
In-between: Wind, wind, wind & windy McWind. Cancelled boats. Spectacularly big skies, everything is true and the earth is only squelching under our feet. Thank you to my friends and family who battled the elements to celebrate my birthday whether you were on the island, on the quay and couldn’t get out or just having a soft smirk and a raised glass. Cheers!
Fiery Tibbetts
Old Light, old lighting it.
Big sky village vista
The old Hotel, now called Old House
Square cottage in blue and white
The only indigenous Lundy mammal (whatever that means) is the Pigmy Shrew (Sorex minutus), here he/she is at Tibbetts 10th October 2019
Those wonderful Tibbetts sunsets
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Juvenile Dotterel birthday treat 8th October Quarryman’s cottages
Time keepers hut. Monument to capitalist repression but beautifully iconic architecture.
Ben’s looking for a route to Quarry beach and I’m looking for the Dotterel. Women watching.
Soay on the move
Jenny’s Cove being battered.
Westside, being as wonderful as ever. Scatter my ashes here.
Mouse hole and trap
Happy days.
Between the showers, earthquake looking towards Jennys
Same shot different light
Here we go, my favourite, at the time and on reflection:
Cooooo
Inside the refuge
Tibbetts view with bracken colours
Beachmaster stand off at Brazen ward
Two peregrine on an east side rock
Taking refuge from the storm
Baby sleeping on Landing beach
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Posted on October 16, 2019
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