Point of Ayr (North Wales) |
Point of Ayr |
Great Orme (North Wales) |
Point Lynas (North Wales) |
Holyhead Breakwater
(North Wales) |
South Stack
(North Wales) |
South Stack |
Trwyn Du
(North Wales) |
Trwyn Du |
Smeaton's Tower, Plymouth Hoe (Devon) |
Built in 1759 |
Eddystone (Devon) |
The Eddystone was built in 1882 |
The original base of Smeaton's Tower
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The tower is 49m tall |
Plymouth Breakwater (Devon) |
Built in 1843 |
Lantern |
Flatholm Island (Wales) |
Flatholm tower view |
Flatholm was built in 1737 |
Southwold (Suffolk) |
Southwold |
Lowestoft (Suffolk) |
Front view of Lowestoft |
Cromer (Norfolk)
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Cromer |
Happisburgh (Norfolk) |
Built in 1790 |
Sunset at Happisburgh |
The Needles (Isle of Wight) |
Built in 1859 |
Automated December 1994 |
The inspiration for my first album! |
Heading into Scratchells Bay |
Approaching the gap in the Needles... |
"Threading the Needles" |
Starboard view of the Isle of Wight |
Leaving The Needles |
Nash Point (Wales) |
Old Low Light at Nash Point |
St Ann's Head (Wales) |
St Ann's Head |
Strumble Head (Wales) |
Strumble Head on St Michael's Island |
Strumble Head |
Stumble Head bulb and optic |
Calm sea to Caldey Island |
Caldey Island (Wales) |
Red sector panel inside Caldey lighthouse |
Evening sky off St Ann's Head |
Skokholm Lighthouse (Wales) |
Approaching South Bishop |
South Bishop - built in 1839 |
Approaching The Smalls Lighthouse |
The Smalls - built in 1861 |
Close-up of The Smalls |
A very rare calm day at The Smalls! |
Gulls |
Passing Grasholm Island gannet colony |
Low tide at the Mumbles
(Swansea Bay - Wales) |
The Mumbles
|
The Mumbles lantern |
Phare de Gatteville
(Normandie - France) |
Gatteville - built in 1834 |
Gatteville twin optics |
Easterly view of La Manche |
Gatteville and semaphore tower |
Phare du Cap Levy |
Cap Levy |
Phare de Carteret |
Carteret in November sunshine |
Arriving at Cap de la Hague |
Cap de la Hague - built in 1837 |
Cap de la Hague |
Beachy Head (East Sussex) |
Approaching Belle Toute |
Belle Toute
|
View of Beachy Head from Belle Toute |
Beachy Head - built in 1902 |
Old Dungeness (Kent) |
Old Dungeness optic |
Old Dungeness sector lights |
New Dungeness |
New Dungeness - built in 1961 |
Arriving at South Foreland (Kent) |
South Foreland |
Hurst Point (Hampshire) |
Hurst Point with Acetylene Plant |
Hurst Point - July 2006 |
Sunset - Nov 2006 |
Redecorating at Hurst - June 2006 |
Heading up the tower |
View over Hurst Castle towards The Needles
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The Keeper’s view |
View across the Solent to the
Isle of Wight
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Hurst Point optic |
Hurst Point and the two old Leading Lights |
Old Leading Lights |
View from the beach |
Hurst Point - August 2006 |
Hurst flora |
Sao Vicente (Algarve – Portugal) |
Sao Vicente – Built in 1846 |
The south-western tip of mainland Europe |
El Rompido (Andalucia – Spain) |
Built in 1975 – Height 43 metres |
Another sunny December day in
El Rompido |
The old lighthouse at El Rompido
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Built in 1861
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Old and new lights |
Solent view of Hurst Point and
The Needles…note the sea mist! |
Mist over the Needles from Scratchell’s Bay (Isle of Wight) |
Mist slowly clears over
The Needles |
The Needles lighthouse…at last! |
The Needles from across Alum Bay |
Approaching St Catherine’s
(lsle of Wight) |
Arriving at St Catherine’s |
Channel view from St Catherine’s |
St Catherine’s lamp |
Westward view
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St Catherine’s adjoining fog
signal tower
|
Approaching Start Point (Devon)
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Start Point |
Coastal view from Start Point |
Start Point optic |
Calshot Spit lightvessel (Southampton, Hampshire) |
Portland Bill Lighthouse Centre (Dorset) |
Old Low Light, Portland Bill
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Portland Bill’s fog horn…yes, it’s loud!
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Height: 41 metres…well-worth the climb!
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The Low Light is now an Ornithologists’ Centre
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The Low Light with its replacement lighthouse at Bill Point in the distance
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Accommodation is available in the Low Light!
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Eastward view from the Low Light
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Old High Light, Portland Bill |
Undergoing maintenance – Summer 2005 |
View of the Low Light from the High Light
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View of Portland lighthouse from the track leading to the High Light
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Approaching Anvil Point (Dorset)
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What a great surprise…the ALK Welcoming Committee!
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Anvil Point optic
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Anvil Point - midway between Portland Bill and the Needles
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Westward view towards Portland Bill
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