Photos for Pam - 100 + photos, mainly of Cornwall, because as Pam herself once told me; "That is where my heart is!"

This strange-looking granite rock appealed to me. Dear all, lack of free time for the forseeable future is going to mean limited presence here. I will try to continue with uploads but may take a week or two to view all your photos or your comments. But I will catch up eventually (I hope!).

On the left, possibly a menhir (standing stone) once, and certainly used as a gatepost more recently.

I must be going mad! Not only do I take a shot of two ponies that magically appear as one, but I have done it again!! I KNEW I was witnessing a very cute kid suckling its mother. But it was finding it hard to get a purchase as the mother was positioned too close to the rocky ground and the wall. It was amusing watching it try to get into a good position (why it didn't come round this side is beyond me!). But when I came to look at the shot later... you guessed it; no sign of the kid! But I can assure you it is there, hidded behind mum and trying to balance on that raised stone.

I should have saved it for a fence Friday (I need all the opportunities I can get)!

St Michael's Mount can be seen (just) on the horizon.

Trevaunance was the port for St Agnes. They persevered with a port here for 150 years but it kept getting destroyed in storms so eventually they gave up and St Agnes is now quintessentially an inland town. Trevaunance Cove now caters for surfers and families bathing in the Cove - on calm days!

A chance shot with the gull in the line of the path. In the distance, Man and His Man, the smaller island seemingly attached to the larger.

Porthcadjack, heather and gorse, for Pam.

Porthmeor Farm, Zennor and its fields, as seen from Carn Galva. For Pam.

I got chatting to the two walkers seen at the bottom of the photo. They were walking the entire Cornwall section of the South West Peninsula Coast Path and had given themselves 6 weeks to do it with the odd week's rest here and there! They looked fit, seemed determined and were over half way round and at about half way in terms of their allotted time frame! I have no doubt they succeeded, and in time to get back to Stanford University where they were both studying for their MBAs. I told them that I had helped Spanish students with their MBA applications to Stanford, Yale, Duke and Harvard - which had to be in English of course. I was pleased to report that I had helped one candidate into Stanford, one to Duke and another to Yale! However the Harvard MBA programme candidate was never going to get on the programme (but I got my fee anyway!). OK, program (not programme) as these were all US MBA courses!

Godrevy Island and Lighthouse, for Pam!

Looking across from the end of Tubby's Head to St Agnes Head, Cornwall.

Also for Pam. There was a strange, but not unpleasant, light at that time.

Gurnard's head as seen from Carnelloe Cliffs, Zennor. For Pam.

Mên-an-tol; simply Cornish for holed stone. A mysterious monument. The experts have no idea what this was for. All they know is that the allignment of the stones has been altered in fairly recent history. The stones were originally in a triangle formation, again no one knows why, nor why they were re-positioned at some point in the past 300 years. More recently, babies have been passed through the hole for good luck and "...the ritual of crawling through the hole nine times widdershins was said to cure rickets and scrofula" - Craig Weatherhill in 'Belerion, Ancient Sites of Land's End'.

For Pam.

Cerro de La Cabeza. Sierra de La Cabrera