After witnessing the battering a young crab received whilst being washed up on the rocks in North Devon this little boy began ‘Crab Rescue’. Read more…
Ship A-Hoy
There’s something special about islands. This is Hoy, the highest in Orkney, and sketching on this clifftop by the Old Man of Hoy was challenging. Even crouched down in a hollow the wind tried to tear the sketchbook from my hands.
Time to Idle
What magic is this you hold on me
that keeps me at your rocky shores
I don’t have time to idle here
First class mail
Under a table in a small museum in Stromness, Orkney, is a model ship. It’s about a metre long, roughly carved from wood with painted blocks of foam making up the turret and bridge deck. This, explained the museum curator, was the St Kilda mail boat.
Let there be light…
Seaport Light on the Mystic River
One of my fondest memories of navigation was the morning I learned that it all worked.
Sunless Sea
When the moon slid across the sun on 11th August 1999, it did so invisibly for most. Many people had travelled down to Cornwall or Devon in the hope of seeing the eclipse, only to find themselves staring up at unrelenting cloud. A few of us did see it… by leaving the shore behind entirely.
WALKING THE DOG…….
Where the cliffs meet the sea……
We are packing to leave
I don’t want to go
I grab the dog’s lead
and I head out the door
We follow the path
where the cliff meets the sea
I can see in his eyes
he is drawn just like me
Long live the lobster!
Lobsters as well as being extraordinary-looking creatures are remarkable in other ways too.
Sculpted by Wind
The ice on these floes has been formed over many seasons, successive freezing during winter and accumulation of layers of snow. Read more…
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