The featured photo was taken at Newgale Beach in Wales. Below, waves behind our ship as we sailed through the Stockholm Archipelago in the Baltic Sea The Straits of Magellan La Bloque Beach near Cheticamp, Cape Breton Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Waves Continue reading Waves
This is series on couples – street photography capturing two people – which for lack of anything more imaginative I have named the Odd Couple series, when in fact they may, or may not be odd. I’ll leave that to the viewer. Continue reading Odd Couple/21 – Red Coat
I love the water, in all its forms – from puddles with reflections to the weedy banks of streams to fast flowing rivers to fresh water lakes and the oceans beyond. Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Land meets water Continue reading Land meets Water
When I was in the Falkland Islands I remarked (more than once) on the sky. It somehow seemed higher, brighter, and more expansive. I took over a hundred pictures of that sky. Perhaps I should be embarrassed to say that 😉 The Falklands are about 800 miles north of the northern tip of Antarctica and I wondered if there was an effect of light bouncing off the Antarctic snow and ice. Or perhaps there is less pollution to cloud the air way down there where the South Atlantic begins to mix with the Southern Ocean. Whatever the cause, the overall effect was light and clean and fresh.
“The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears or the sea.”
– Karen Blixen, pen name: Isak Dinesen
I am mesmerized by the sea,
the waves that roll unceasingly, Continue reading “The Cure”
Ailsa’s travel theme this week is Oceans, in recognition of World Oceans Day. The ocean’s have sustained disasters of epic proportions in the last decades …we need to support our governments as they continue to battle it out to protect our oceans’ resources from dumping, spilling and over-fishing. These photos Continue reading “Travel Theme: Oceans”
My previous post on Wales was Walking the Coastal Path.
For Thursday we had planned an outing to Aberystwyth. From Aberystwyth, meaning “Mouth of the River Ystwyth” – I need to interject here – harking back yet again, to It’s OK, They Speak English, the pronunciation of Aberystwyth is given as: æbəˈrɪstwɪθ – now I ask, it that really helpful? To continue … from Aberystwyth we planned to take a ride on an old steam train on the Vale of Rheidol Railway that would take us on a “nostalgic journey through some of Wales’ most spectacular scenery”.
But for this day our plans were less ambitious and we headed in the direction of Abergwaun, meaning “Mouth of the River Gwaun”, or, in English – Fishguard.
So again we set off at 10.30 a.m. – this had become our norm; we just couldn’t seem to get moving any earlier – and we motored north along the A487 … but before long Continue reading “On the Road to Abergwaun”
My last post in this Wales saga was All things come in threes …
Just two miles from our vacation apartment in St-David’s lies Whitesands Beach on Whitesands Bay. It is said to be the best surfing beach in Pembrokeshire and one of the best tourist beaches in the world. In fact, this October day, we saw Continue reading “Walking the Coastal Path”
We have heard that Captains of cruise ships must take nine years of training and then earn huge salaries as they sail to all the world’s faraway places … why? Because there is a Cape Horn.
Cape Horn sits at the south tip of the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego and Tierra del Fuego sits of the south tip of South America. There isn’t a whole lot between Cape Horn and Antarctica. The Drake Passage around Cape Horn forms part of the Southern Ocean.
The Southern Ocean from about latitude 400 south to the Antarctic Circle has the strongest average winds found anywhere on earth because there is less land mass to slow them down; they just blow around the world almost uninterrupted by land. The latitudes between 400 south and 500 south have been dubbed the Continue reading “Below 40, there is no law”
Beyond the Brush 