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Hot Hanmers
Lundy time: Joon 2025. We were gutted to hear that our week’s stay in Tibbetts was cancelled due to problems with the new waterpump installation (Tibbetts has its own Well and the quaint but outdated battery waterpump was being upgraded). Instead we were offered Hanmers, a corrugated iron and timber hut built in 1898 by […]
Intimate Exmoor
June 7, 2025
In the summertime, when the weather is fineYou can stretch right up and touch the skyWhen the weather’s fineYou got camping, you got camping on your mind.Have a drink, have a driveGo out and see what you can find. However camping is dangerous. The ground is uneven, the night skies are dark and there are […]
Posted in: Beauty in the familiar, Exmoor
Purple and Lime colours on top
May 24, 2025
Maytime is when Exmoor comes to life, the beech trees and hedges start to show their fabulously fresh, almost florescent lime-green foliage. This year the wow factor has been amplified by the prolonged dry spell (don’t look up), and some fabulous blue skies. The light winds helped the blossom to set and for the next […]
Posted in: Exmoor
Puffins in the Pinks
May 19, 2025
Once more to Lundy Island, this time on a day trip from Bideford. It is an early start to coincide with the high tide, but the bonus is that you get extra hours on the island as the return journey has to align with the next high tide so that the boat can navigate the […]
Highland Capers
May 12, 2025
Easter was late this year and those few extra weeks make such a difference to the weather as winter slips into spring. Especially in the highlands of Scotland, with the snow all but gone the landscape takes on a gentle and softer identity. The unassuming colour palette is full of awesome tones, and the big […]
Posted in: Scotland, Uncategorized
Rainy Day on May
May 10, 2025
The Isle of May, off the Fife coast, is a national nature reserve and home to over 100,000 puffins during the breeding season; which runs from April til June. This small island which has a tremendous variety of wildlife, renowned for its rich bird life, seals and reefs, also has an interesting religious and maritime […]
The old fishing towns of the Fife coast path
May 10, 2025
Not as up and down as the salt path which goes past my front door but that’s not a bad thing… The 100 mile route links the Forth and Tay estuaries and wanders along miles of golden beaches, attractive woods and nature reserves, but the route also threads its way through industrial towns and and […]
Biggest day of the year so far
May 7, 2025
As the summer flat spell has kicked in very early this year, and several important surf contests have been postponed til the autumn, I am posting these snapshots of the biggest day of the year so far here in North Devon. Least we forget that this winter has pumped; from Xmas day til that high […]
Calendar debrief
May 5, 2025
Thank you to all who bought the 2025 Calendar and for your continued support on my calendar journey with another sell out. I am a bit late with my usual blog about some of the stories behind the photos that made the 5th edition of the Beautiful North Devon Calendar. Let’s jump straight into it […]
Autumnal Phototherapy
November 16, 2024
Autumn is a golden time for landscape photographers and here in North Devon the stars of the show are the mighty beech trees, especially on the top of Exmoor. As always you have to dance with the weather and an early season gale can strip the trees of all their jewels. This year, […]
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