The Island as we come in, just looks so lovely
This is just the most amazing picture. Look at the line of cloud! Well come home!!!
This was the next day and a trip to the west coast
Nothing like the day before and look at that boiling white cloud....the sea is quite high too
This shows the amount of rainfall that has come off the hillside and it's amber in colour as it rushes over the peaty soil
Me and the boys thought a trip on the train would be nice. So we went on the hour long trip from Douglas to Port Erin. I was super excited. I love the train
Look at this happy personage!
The corn fields flash by and the steam from the engine curls out
Here we are waiting for the trains to cross at a station
So sweet
and then we are off again
To our destination
Louie found at the museum at the last stop a simulator ride and so he obviously had a go and got a certificate and everything!
We had a walk around the town and found these wallabies. (They are a scheme by the Hospice organization on the Island to raise money) I tell you, they were all over the Island
Painted amazingly
I saw these cute doors and matching gates to their gardens
how lovely to have a garden by the sea
But it was a windy day!
We're on our way home now
Can't even imagine it's that funny. But what a great picture of Isaac
Spied this on our journey
The scenery you pass by on the train is just lovely and as you mostly don't go along the main road you get to see so much more
One evening I took a stroll and saw the boat coming in from Heysham. Quite the scene and they maneuver that boat amazingly
Down by the quay it is rather interesting and these boat ties were rather glorious and just painted!
How about that for a place to sleep.
I love chimney pots
They are all so different and they seemed all to have residents
Oh this picture I took in my sister's summer house /shed. The gloves seemed to be saying something. "Give a small bit?"
How lovely is this and the colour of the Summer house and the fence. ! Of course how can you not love lavender!
But there were murky days
This is during the day!
and the wallabies
Very pretty
More pots
But when the sun comes out, everything sparkles
boys examining rock pools
Yup, all good
In a near by disused quarry someone has put in water lilies
it is rather lovely. You can also see the tilting of the rock formations and this area is near where I went to school and studied Geology. So I am very familiar with the formation of the limestone pavement, anticlines and synclines and not forgetting the basalt dyke and old volcano. Amazing to have all of that in a small area.
Mr Heron out for lunch
The boys on a limestone anticline
This is part of the limestone pavement
The rock pools are teaming with life
and of course lots of limpets
The colours of the seaweed are so vivid
Yup that's what they are looking at
The sky that day was perfect
time for a sit down
well for some. Others are doing I think yoga!
Or maybe just mucking about!They are standing on quite the rock formation. Limestone pavement and in the background you can see the layers of rock
It really is an amazing place
Farmers were rushing to get the hay cut
This is a view as we drive along the coast, sparkling seas
More Wallabies
So creatively painted
Lots of art in this town
Not so sure about this one
This town, Castletown has lovely houses built out of the limestone found near by and quite grand door knocks to go on those houses
I like this picture because of the reflection of the street opposite!
These are some of the houses
My favorite and it shows both local limestone and the window sills and pillars are sandstone from another town on the west coast
Just lovely
Theses streets I walked along as a high school student and we were just roaming about and I also spied the weather vane
They have a town square and they have made it rather fun with deckchairs
This is the castle behind where we are sitting
and a walk by the castle through it's grounds
Takes you to the harbour
Oh fairy door!!! how sweet
Sometimes it is just those patchwork fields that pull the eye. It is such a lot of green
The sea this day was quite colorful and people about and boat on high. I just love the different shapes of this scene. I think my favorite bit is the steps!
Louie must have quite as many pictures as me!
Flags fully blowing
Rapt concentrations
Sweet little lighthouse at the Cosy Nook
I think those mad fellas are about to go out onto the sea, kite surfing
This view is always changing! A dull day but lots of texture
So onto our favorite pilgrimage and the sound and the very south of the Island
Seems like a wild day and those blobs of colour are the boys
Really churning sea
Definitely need a hood
Or not, depending!
It was a misty drive back
quite murky and a bit creepy
More Wallabies, this time on the North East of the Island
If you guess the theme tune.......
Cute thatch house
This was something that I had wanted to revisit for a long time. It is a Celtic settlement
The setting is amazing
I don't normally include such an indulgent photo, but Damian looks lovely here.
Ok that's over doing it
Haha!
This is what we actually came to see. Look at the heather in the grasses...and the ancient stones
The corn field and path make for quite the colours
Oh Wallabies!!!!
That is the end of the summer adventure. But don't worry, I have been snapping since I have returned to Canada and we will have fall pictures next!
