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Lamorna and Mousehole January walk
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- Créé le jeudi 12 janvier 2012 15:29
Aaaaah! A collective sigh for the new year. After all the festivities it is great to get out and about and do what the legs and muscles have been screaming to do. And what weather we have had.
FRAWF walk
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- Créé le dimanche 13 novembre 2011 09:34
Cornwall is blessed with so many wonderful habitats and scenery that it is often a great idea to promote a single area for a festival. The problem only starts when one has to define the boundaries to include and exclude some areas from others. The Fal River estuary has up to 160kms (100m) of shoreline if one includes the Helford rivers' 42 kms and the south west coast path up to Portloe.
The Fal River Autumn Walking Festival spopnsored by the Nare Hotel has just had its inaugural set of walks. A variety of guides and walks were provided from wild food walks with Rachel Lambert to National Trust walks lead by Neil Stevenson amongst others. We have had nordic walking, walks on the maritime heritage of Falmouth and many downloadable self guided walks.
Weather predicting. Art or luck?
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- Créé le dimanche 16 octobre 2011 10:01
Walking in bad weather is better than sitting in an office in good weather.
Bad weather still means good walking; it’s just that great weather usually means great walking. So the game to be played with Mother Nature is how to be walking in good weather all week.
When mist and fog envelope the bays and headlands further up and down the coast from where you are standing in clear visibility one can be tempted to entertain smugness but pride comes before a fall so let it be fleeting.
Whose "sori" now?
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- Créé le mercredi 17 février 2010 23:20
- (Say with a Clouseau accent until you laugh) “Sorry, I’m on the fern”. Clutch one of the 53 species in Britain to your ear as you walk down a damp, enclosed sunken lane or a path in a wood. Yup, pteridophytes can be fun, even if it has taken them 400 million years to be included in a one-liner. Oh and please don’t pick a fresh one, that’s the countryside code.
Autumns approach: An awareness of change
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- Créé le dimanche 2 octobre 2011 09:51
Intensity: Wind: Light: Waves: Perfect insects’ final dance: Natures last throw of the dice: Birds knowledgeable, warbling their mournful autumnal tunes. Blink and you miss the subtlety of change; the announcement that we are in the death throws of growth and vibrancy and we are entering the time of decay, death and reinvention.
Low tide scrambling. The Cornwall coast is a new land.
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- Créé le dimanche 4 septembre 2011 09:25
Very low tides mean scrambling! Very low tides mean you can see the Cornish landscape from an unusual angle where the sea floor is revealed and a different vista can be enjoyed. Caves can be explored, geology viewed close up that might not be exposed further up on the Coast Path. New beaches are yours to run about on whilst islands, so often out of reach can be accessed and conquered.
Low tide coastline becomes a new playground for walkers.
So many butterflies in Cornwall
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- Créé le lundi 26 septembre 2011 11:42
Butterflies are invertebrates, having a back bone or more accurately jointed limbs, from the group “Anthropoda”. Moving down the taxonomic classification they are from the order Lepidoptera which means “scale wings” which describes the scaly membrane that gives them their unique colours. Having said that look at the photo of the Red Admiral- more orange than red.
One thing I didn’t know for a while was that some species of butterflies live for a few days (common blue) whilst most can hibernate and live on to the following spring. Some over winter as larvae and others as full adults. Others are migrants from warmer climes.
The shape of topiary in the Mendips
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- Créé le jeudi 18 août 2011 07:56
This topiary was seen on a walk in the Mendips when I was up there recently with the family. Now call me old fashioned but am I missing something here or are these topiary shapes, well you know, rather obvious?
Lizard Peninsula walking holiday in Cornwall 2011
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- Créé le dimanche 25 septembre 2011 21:06
The Lizard coastal walk. 60kms or 37.5 miles of coast path from Porthleven to Helford on the Helford River around the Southernmost point of the UK.
It is the beauty of the place, unrivalled even within the county of Cornwall that brings so many people back here year after year and keeps us locals revisiting on a weekly basis. The colours and light forever changing and reinventing the words that describe a beautiful landscape.
Colours and moods whilst walking in Cornwall
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- Créé le dimanche 7 août 2011 08:13
The moods and colours of the landscape in Cornwall vary from day to day and I feel are more intensive in this county than elsewhere. It has a lot to do with the light and the fact that Cornwall is a stick of rock out in the Atlantic surrounded by the vast expanse of sea, which affects the light particles. The schools of painters that have made Cornwall their home understood this.
Clouds on an invisible track
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- Créé le dimanche 18 septembre 2011 13:42
What is it about September photos that are so different from the rest of the year? Suddenly we have processions of clouds from the South West to the North East following the hidden track of the predominant winds like hangers on a rail.
What the devil's going on? Is it a frying pan or what?
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- Créé le mardi 19 juillet 2011 15:03
We contemplated the name, the Devil’s Frying Pan near Cadgwith on the Lizard peninsula, because I mistakenly called it the Devil’s Punchbowl, after the so named place in Surrey. Well obviously it was something kitchen related. So where in the UK is the Devils Fondue Set, I wonder?
Plus d'articles...
- Colours, laughter and 13 is not an unlucky number.
- Walking holiday in Cornwall A week in June 2011
- Falmouth town walk every sunday 5pm
- walkitcornwall and Cornwall Air Ambulance sponsorship
- Economic value of nature: National Ecosystem Assessment
- The solitude of walking. Walking as a small group.
- Walking holiday in Cornwall May 9th-13th 2011
- Budock Vean Hotel walking break 2011
- Walking holiday in Cornwall April 2011
- Geology on the Lizard - A french school visit.
- A call to arms, sorry legs.... and feet
- When life flashes past mine eyes, what colours they shall be.