Motion Blur
Tag: landscape
Headed Home
Our final day (3 April) we went to the visitor centre and the Lindisfarne Priory museum, then took a taxi back to Berwick-upon-Tweed to catch the train. It was a blustery, windy day.
Out to Sea
Follow the Emerald Road
North Shore
Once down to the beach we ran across all manner of things. Click any image below to see larger.
Shore
From atop the dunes we climbed down to the shore.
Sand Dunes
Next, we walked a trail among the sand dunes and the grasses at the north and west of the island, as the fog lifted and the day brightened. Click any of the pictures below to see them larger.
From the Heugh
Next we wandered up to the Heugh, a rocky ledge that may hold the foundations of the earliest church on the site (7th century). The panorama below is a gigantic file, stitched together from 14 separate shots. If you enlarge it you can see incredible detail throughout.
Lindisfarne
Walking back from the boats and lobster pots we viewed the ruins of Lindisfarne a short way off. Click either picture below to see them larger.
Down by the Sea
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Foggy Morning Breakfast
Sitting at breakfast in the hotel that morning we looked out on a foggy scene. Then went out and took pictures (below) before the fog had cleared. Click on any of them to see larger.
The Long View
Flight
Oh, Deer
Dune
The next day (Tuesday, 2nd April) we set off on a round-the-island walk, starting with the sand dunes and their grasses.
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Mud Flats
Lindisfarne – Holy Island can only be reached at low tide when the causeway emerges from the North Sea, surrounded by wet sand and mud. It was a cold, windy, rainy day as we trekked the 6+ miles. (Click the images below o enlarge them.)
North Sea
The next day (Easter Monday), we set out from our hotel between Fenwick and Beal for the Holy Island. This rise gave us our first view of the North Sea, off in the distance.
Before and After
One shot from before we reached St Cuthbert’s Cave (last post) and one from after. Except for at the cave we hardly saw a soul.
Postmodern decomposition
Happy 90th, Mom!
When monks first abandoned Lindisfarne, carrying the corpse of St Cuthbert, this cave was, according to legend at least, the first resting place of his miraculously un-decomposed cadaver. The people you can see in this shot were virtually the first we ran into on our walk.