St Ives – Day 5
I got up for another dawn and walked up to the Island to see what was happening.As it was around full moon the Moon had not yet set and was above the chapel on the Island. Photographing the moon is quite often dissappointing because our minds (well certainly mine) makes the moon appear bigger than […]
St Ives – Day 4
We got up for the dawn, just and we dashed down to Porth Gwiddan to have a dawn swim. The sun had just breached the horizon and we braved the chilly Atlantic waters. As usual, once you are in it is lovely. We were in about 30 minutes, I even managed a little drive. We […]
St Ives – Day 3
I set my alarm on my new Garmin Watch for 6:30am with a view to getting up for the dawn again. I was glad that I did as it was a great one. I started on the beach by the cottage but then moved to get the sunrise in line with a tower in the […]
Day 2 – St Ives
Feeling slightly hungover, I still managed to get up for dawn. I didn’t think it would be that good as I could see that clouds would have passed overhead a few hours ago, heading east, and therefore it may obscure the sun on the horizon. It was still very pleasant though and I used some […]
Getting to St Ives
The day before getting to St Ives we stayed at Judy & Ivan’s. I went for a long walk in the morning around the Lanner area. It is very good walking country with hills and flat bits , great views and lots to look at. Some of the paths are getting a bit overgrown so […]