Grockle Me

Hayle Estuary

This month, for a short week, I've been a tourist in someone else's county, namely Cornwall, and specifically the area between Hayle and St. Ives. Armed only with my phone camera (I was travelling light) I took a surprising number of pictures. The weather was variable. The picture quality is variable, but they are all absolutely Cornwall. Here are just a few of them.

St. Ives

St Ives

Tate Modern - St. Ives

Tate Modern

Barbara Hepworth - Tate Modern

Another view of the Barbara Hepworth

Old Cross - Lelant

Hayle Estuary

St. Ives

St. Ives

St. Ives

St. Ives' Harbour

A St. Ives beach

St. Ives' Harbour

A beach - St. Ives

Hayle Estuary

Hayle Estuary (nighttime - looking across at Hayle)

Wells Next The Sea

 

So, on the same grey, drear day in June that I visited Walsingham, I pushed on to Wells Next the Sea. 

You will not find any Tourist Board photos here, just sea, birds and mud, which is how it was - North Norfolk on a damp, grey day, but rather lovely in its own down-beat way. It was also my first visit to the sea since before the first 2020 lockdown and all that came after. It made me happy.

Sunsets and Seabirds

"She does not notice the blood and fire sunset
 Burning down to her left"

                                                    From "Sylvia" by J.S.Watts

                                             

"Her amber eyes reflect the molten sunset,

 Watching as it darkens to the crimson of pain,

 To the purple of savage contusions."

                                                                           From "Winter Solstice" by J.S.Watts