I was emailed this picture and I want to share it on here because I think it’s fairly spectacular:
(It also features a lighthouse, and I like lighthouses.)
A little bit of detective work led me to this guy – Veselin Malinov – and a quick look at his recent photostream indicates that this shot was anything but a chance effort.
There are some amazing photos on there and it’s well worth popping over if you have a few minutes to spare.
My Mum and Dad recently jumped on a special ferry from Douglas in the Isle of Man to… er… Douglas… in the Isle of Man.
This “round the Island” trip is a chance for locals to go… er… round the island and see it from a different perspective.
Here’s one of the photos they took:
This is the Chicken Rock lighthouse off the south west coast of the Isle of Man. Wikipedia tells us:
The 0.1 hectare rock is home to a 44 m (144 ft) lighthouse which was designed by engineers David and Thomas Stevenson after it was realised that the lights on the Calf of Man were not sufficient to warn ships away. Construction of this tapered granite structure was completed in December 1874 and the first official lighting day was on 1 January 1875.
So not quite as old as the Cape Agulhas light, but given that this one is built on a rock that is completely submerged at high tide and which lies 4.5km off the mainland (and about 7.5km from the nearest port), I think that’s a pretty amazing feat of engineering for that time.
But maybe not just yet.
We’ve been doing some touristy things this week, as you may have noticed from the brief but touristy posts I’ve been briefly posting. We’ve had friends over from the UK and it’s been great to enjoy the opportunity to be tourists in and around our city. Something that yes, I know we should do more, but no, we don’t.
Yesterday was BRANDY! the Winelands, today was Cape Point and those penguins at Boulders.
There are many shots on my repaired camera which will surely (hopefully) be better than this one from my phone, and since we’re going to be relaxing all solo over the next few days, I’ll hopefully have a chance to go through them and get some onto Flickr (internet dependent).
This – Misty Cliffs – remains one of my favourite Cape views. But I’m not sure which variation I prefer: today’s or this one from an altogether wilder day out.
Hmm. Bit arty farty.
This photo, taken earlier today at an appropriately grey Groot Constantia, looks like one of those that usually gets some sort of daft emotional or motivational line plastered across it.
I waited for you till morning
or
never ever stop believing.
or whatever nonsense.
Please note that I haven’t done that.
I took the boot out for some exercise this afternoon:
Summer hasn’t quite left us yet, as you can see from this colourful but otherwise rather uninspiring pic from Wynberg Boys High.
This as Sheffield suffers in freezing temperatures and under heavy snowfalls. I still miss those sort of days, but I wouldn’t want to be on crutches in the snow and ice, believe me.