Sea Pictures, mainly.

[curiouswombat]

This is just a post to show the contrasts we can get in weather, here in the Irish Sea. I took a few pictures when I visited a patient in Derbyhaven last week - in a storm, and a few today, about 4 or 5 miles away at Port Erin, on a calm day.

I'll put them

Derbyhaven's name suggests, rightly, that it is a sheltered cove - and it has not only the natural protection of the curves of the bay, but also a man-made breakwater; which is the structure in the middle here, doing its job - the water is certainly breaking over it! Can you imagine how rough the water would be in the haven if it wasn't for the breakwater?



And from a little further along, the breakwater again -



Definitely a day to leave your small boat in the bay! It was the sort of day I was imagining in Immigrants, Chapter Seven.

Today - exactly a week later, I was in Port Erin, and sat on a bench above the bay to eat lunch - it was a very different day! This was the view;



Or, if I turned about 90* I could see this;



The thing on the top is the Milner Tower - it is basically a folly.

And here is a closer view of the yacht in the bay;



This is just a seat further down the path;



And finally, just because I like it, here are two people strolling along the shore;



Lunch breaks like that certainly help centre me and ready me to face the afternoon!

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You know we are so used to the sea air that we don't really think of it. But I used to find that, whenever I came home from the UK, I was very sleepy for a couple of days - my Mum reckoned it was the sea air.