There are other stories I’ve written about images found at Poltesco on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. One was about the sand (Sand is just sand-coloured, right?) and one about the pebbles (Poltesco pebbles, imaginitive title that one!) but this … Read More
Last year we discovered Poltesco, an area on the east coast of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall managed by the National Trust. It has a rich variety of flora and fauna but I usually go there to photograph the water … Read More
The extraordinary ‘dinosaur eggs’ of granite piled up on Porth Nanven beach in the far west of Cornwall are always a bit of a surprise, even when you’ve seen them before and know they are there. How can so many … Read More
We’ve had big tides recently, some of the biggest for twenty years apparently, and it enables you to get a different perspective on a familiar place. Walking (sounds more elegant than ‘clambering’) among the rocks at low water is always … Read More
The caption for this image might make you think of bright pink confectionery but this is definitely not something to sink your teeth into! The rocks on Castle beach in Falmouth have wonderful stripes with varying colours and breadths with … Read More
The Lizard in Cornwall has outcrops of serpentine rock that contain many colours and create beautiful, natural patterns. In places the rocks have been polished as people sit on a rock bench or trample down a narrow path to a … Read More