The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.
Charlotte Bronte
Archive for the tag 'Sea'
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2023
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Science & Nature, Sherborne 2019
Man O’War and Durdle Door
Durdle Door is probably the most famous stone arch anywhere in the world. It was created when the sea pierced through the Portland limestone around 10,000 years ago. Looking west over the beach, isolated stacks out at sea show where an older coastline once lay. This part of the coast is formed from merged bays [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2019
Filed under Sherborne 2019
West Bay
From the end of the Jurassic Pier at West Bay, you can view the coast from South Devon to Portland in Dorset. Launch your boat at the West Bay Marina (Bridport Harbour). West Bay is a major gateway to the Jurassic Coast, which covers 95 miles of coast from Orcombe Rocks at Exmouth, Devon to [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2019
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
May the narrow rivers of our lives be widened by torrential rains of Thy blessings, and pass through vast lowlands of humbleness, self-sacrifice, and consideration for others, to enter in purity Thy Blissful Sea.
Paramahansa Yogananda
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 24th 2017
Budle Bay is in North Northumberland and is a beautiful and important bird sanctuary, with huge mud flats that are exposed at low tide. The whole area is part of the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve and is very popular with birdwatchers, particularly in the winter when thousands of wildfowl and waders spend their winter on [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Grace Darling Museum
The photo above shows the coble in which Grace and her father launched in atrocious weather to rescue survivors from the steamship Forfarshire which had struck the Big Harcar rock on the Farnes. The photo below shows St Aidan’s church as viewed from the Grace Darling museum with rather calmer seas in the background.
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle & Alnwick 2016
Coastal Road to Bamburgh
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2017
