Out and about on Mann

That's all for today.

 

Thank you so much for those lovely pictures Sheal. What a peaceful place to be on a day like this...
Loved your sheep and your seals,
Jenny

 

Thank you Jenny, although it's a quiet area it's fairly busy with tourists this time of year.

 

I was in Douglas earlier this evening scouting for pictures for this months photo competition 'Street Furniture' and took these. All taken on North Quay around the inner harbour.

The Isle of Man Steampacket building.








Inner harbour/marina.






Roundabout




The Lift Bridge between inner and outer harbours.

 

Britain is lovely, and I love the seal lounging on his belly wile looking peeved at your invading his space like some paparazzi rat. And I gave you disagrees so you would notice I was here..

p.s. I never can see stacked cannon balls without thinking of Vonnegut's 'Ice 9'

 

Whoa - Hi Colne,
so, you've jumped your N O ship and found the rest of GC,
enjoy,
Jenny namaste
( just logged on)

 

And those psycho looking sheep! Not the bland, mutton on the hoof things we normally think of sheep! I am reminded of an American flag; it is one of USA's official flags......



Your Viking heritage I guess

 

Spotted your post Jenny - I got an alert that Sheal had posted here. I stay off on my political frothing sites mostly - but nice to see the Isle so magically.

 

See this old picture below @colne, I was standing on that piece of turf right at the bottom of the picture when I took the one of the seals basking on the rocks across the water. There was about 80 to a 100 yards between us. The power of a zoom lens did the rest!


Instead of using the 'Disagree' button you can tag me as I have done to you above to attract attention, it will show in my 'alerts' box, as my tag has shown in yours. Then just click on the thread in that alert and it will take you to the post.

 

These pictures were all taken around sunset today. The first five were at a small bay called Fleshwick. Unknown to tourists it rests at the bottom of a long, downhill, one track road and is one of my favourite places. So peaceful and a good place to escape to, I can visit there and be completely on my own with just the sea and wildlife for company.











The Cormorants were taken at Port Erin, sorry not the best of shots!


There were some fantastic cloud formations around today so I thought I'd share them with you.

 

Fantastic shots @Sheal

 

How beautiful The British Isles are! here is beautiful, but in a rougher cut way where most of man's works are not pretty and melded into the land. I have those same cormorants in my back yard in winter when frozen out up North - they are bad news for fish farmers but have not invaded my pond fortunately, like the odd heron does, they look like geese when in flight. The water on the beach pictures makes me want to go out in a small boat and set lobster traps and catch some mackerel. That all is so familiar way back in my brain when I used to spend lots of time in the lonelier bits of British coast.

 

Thank you Mowgley and Colne.

When the weather is good the island can be so pretty. A lot of the landscape is very much like Scotland, which is not surprising as many moons ago it was part of it. Taking the pictures of the clouds on high ground I was shivering, the temperature at that point was only 7C/44F and dropping, we have a frost due tonight!

Colne, these shots were taken on the south-west coast, I live in the north west of the island and all along that coast small boats go out to set traps for crabs and lobsters, they also fish for Queenies here but they are restricted at the moment due to depletion of availability.