A walk around St Marys 14th June.

I walked the entire circumference of St Marys last Sunday.
It has taken me a week to find the time to get the pics sorted out and on here as I took about 250!
The walk took about 4 hours plus a stop for lunch at Carn Vean!
It was a perfect day and there was lots of wildlife enjoying the sun.
Starting at Porthcressa Beach I headed off out to Peninis Head and on the way saw Rosechaffer,4 different types of butterfly, a pair of stone 2 pairs of rock pipits and other seabirds out to sea.
Following the coast path around to the tranquil bay of Old Town and then off past Porth Minack and on to Porth Hellick.
This stretch of coast path was full of Burnett Moths and more rock pipits.
After Porth Hellick I went on to Deep Point where I spotted a tiny Wren hiding in the undergrowth.
Then on to Pelistry and up to Carn Vean for a cool beer and a bite to eat.
After lunch it was back down to the path and across Pelistry beach and around to Watermill.
After Watermill came Innisidgen and then Bar Point and Pendrathen.
Then up to Bants Carn past my old house and then around to Carn Morval.
By now Hugh Town was in sight and I was nearly back in town.
Passing Porth loo and Porth Mellon and I was back where I had started some 5 hour earlier.
I have to recommend this walk to any one who has the time to partake in it.
There is always lots to see and despite passing some people with hiking boots,rucksacks and walking sticks, I managed it with a tenner in my pocket and a bottle of squash in my hand!
The walking is relatively straight forward and I hear is about 9 miles.
I had worked it out roughly on google earth for it to be more like 7 and a bit!

St Martins

I went to St Martins on Saturday to do some work.
I had time to kill waiting for the boat back so used it wisely and took a walk around the back of the island and down to Great Bay and had a bit of rock hopping across to White Island.
White Island is joined to St Martins by a narrow rocky isthmus and normally is cut off when I pass but today I was here at dead on low water and couldn't resist a look.
While walking back to boat I came across several big rabbits that were hardly bothered by me at all, even in the broad daylight.
Hope you enjoy the pics!

Friday night gig race

I followed the gig race last night.
The race was from Guthers Island to Lowertown St Martins.
It was the mens race and was a great race to watch being a shorter race than the normal Nut Rock race.
The shorter distance meant for a close race and coxs were looking for the best line to get out of the strong tides rushing down the channel.
Bonnet won the race with the Czar coming in a very close second.
On the boat trip back from St Martins we took a trip around the Galatea which was moored out in the bay.
When back on dry land the cloud parted briefly to allow the sun to come out for a few minutes which created a dramatic looking sunset.

Back Online

Its been a while since I have posted on here, but I have been taking pics in the time that I have been offline and have sorted out my pick of the best of them to put on here tonight.
These pics are all from the past 2 weeks or so and show well the lovely weather we have had so far this summer.
There have been some great sunsets and I have a couple of pics of these too.
I hope to get back to posting a bit more regularly again now, but in a slightly different format perhaps...
Hope you all enjoy the pics!