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Hot Hanmers

July 8, 2025

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was cancelled due to problems with the new waterpump installation (Tibbetts has its own Well and the quaint but outdated battery waterpump was being upgraded).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 […]

Puffins Galore

June 11, 2024

When everything else in life is going tits up, it’s nice to be able to report a heart warming success story from our very shores across the water at Lundy Island. Back at the turn of this century when everyone else was worrying about a non-existent ‘millennium bug” and dancing to Britany Spears (no relation), […]

Mid summer moods at Tibbetts

June 10, 2024

Racked up my 21st stay at Tibbetts in June 2024, and if you think of each stay as a year in the life of your Tibbetts experience; this year, the wild teen years have given way to a more mature approach with melancholic moods. There is a hint of nostalgia for the old ways, however […]

Oh what fun we had ….

October 16, 2023

On Lundy Island for my third trip of the year to Tibbetts, this time with a rag tag bunch of family and dear friends to celebrate my birthday, my retirement and my bus pass! I didn’t take too many photos because I was laughing so much, however these few will trigger memories of the most […]

Diving with seals

July 10, 2023

One of the great results of the No Take Zone, (as well as the Conservation of Seals act 1970) is the expanding population of the Atlantic grey seals on Lundy, Britain has 40% of the worlds grey seal population which amounts to about 100,000 and Lundy has a breeding population of over 60 of those, […]

All quiet on the rock

July 4, 2023

It’s not very often that you visit Lundy when it’s not windy, it is a lump of rock stuck out in the middle of the Bristol channel after all but when it’s calm, it’s beguiling. All the noise is stripped away and you can hear the subtle sounds of the island, not just the shouters, […]

Lundy Summer Seabirds

July 3, 2023

LSS (Splitters!). I’ve been lucky enough to have my second stay in Tibbetts this year, and on a hot week in June, it was a joy; not only as a mid season break from work but to test the XT-5 and it’s new auto-focus algorithms – especially on the seabirds population. It’s not all about […]

Here we go again

March 20, 2023

Back to the island for my 25th stay since my first one (at Old Light Upper) back in 2012, nineteen of those stays have been at Tibbetts, the solid granite lookout built in 1909 and a retreat loved by a small group of fugitives and absconders from the modern digital world, known amongst themselves as […]

Lundy with Liz

April 10, 2022

Back to the rock for what I think is my 25th stay on the island, and to celebrate I’ve come with one veteran and two Lundy virgins. This time to Stoneycroft and it’s magical electricity thing… Crucifixion? One cross each… First sight of the Stoney Croft from the helicopter.. Here’s Liz, not looking too comfortable, […]

Blue Lundy

May 26, 2021

With umpteen visits and ‘stays’ on Lundy over the last (hhummty) years, it seems that I have never had a May stopover, which seems logical as it’s a very busy time for the last of the serious surf contests and, preparation for the start of the holiday season in North Devon. Both have ran […]