Friday 4 June 2010

A busy couple of days.

For the Duchess' birthday treat - we went to Bempton & Filey on Wednesday. It really was a glorious day.
The place was packed - as busy as I've ever seen it - but we enjoyed a long wander around the various viewing points on  the clifftops. There are more pictures of things various here:


It was the first time in a long time that we've seen chicks at Bempton - although the total number of birds seemed fewer than on previous visits.

After a good couple of hours, we went back to the car and drove up the coast to Filey for Fish & Chips at Inghams -


An excellent Fish Restaurant and Takeaway recommended by a couple of my "Tweeter" friends.

After eating we sat for a half hour looking out over the sea before taking a good 2.1/2 hours to drive home. An excellent day all round!

Thursday - we decided to go to another RSPB reserve - this time much nearer home at Wath-on-Dearne. The place is called Old Moor and I've mentioned it before. I'm working on an album of pics from this visit and will post ASAP.

In the meantime - hope you enjoy the Bempton/Filey album!

2 comments:

Penfold said...

Been to Ighams chippy too Ken....quality :-)

Penfold said...

I absolutley love Bempton Ken. Your pictures are (as ever) superb. As I often find with my Lakes pictures- you never get a true perspective- but your pictures are pretty damned close. Filey, I walked that bloomin Brigg in the fog....hairy experience that! Especially as at the end it narrows to a "footpath-sized" ridge where you could hear the sea way below crashing against the rocks. I was wondering if after the picture of the gannets hunting was taken, did they start diving? That is a spectacular sight which I was lucky to see off Arran last year. Anyhow, smashing pictures, keep 'em coming, Dave.

I absolutley love Bempton Ken. Your pictures are (as ever) superb. As I often find with my Lakes pictures- you never get a true perspective- but your pictures are pretty damned close. Filey, I walked that bloomin Brigg in the fog....hairy experience that! Especially as at the end it narrows to a "footpath-sized" ridge where you could hear the sea way below crashing against the rocks. I was wondering if after the picture of the gannets hunting was taken, did they start diving? That is a spectacular sight which I was lucky to see off Arran last year. Anyhow, smashing pictures, keep 'em coming, Dave.

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A couple of pics taken on an old camera phone.