Granite rocks with personality

The preferred roost of griffon vultures but I have scared them all away! El Cancho de La Bola, guano stained for close on 10,000 years!

L to R on skyline; Canchos Largo and Gordo. Pure granite scenery. A perishingly cold January day for all that it looks like the height of summer! One of my personal favourites of the Sierra de La Cabrera.

There is another Trereen Dinas at Gurnard's Head on the north coast. They are both iron age clifftop fortifications. This one near Porthcurno is known as The Logan Rock due to a rocking stone on the summit which was dislodged by a young naval officer early in the 19th century. He had to put it back at his own expense; he did so, but it no longer rocked! The rock is in the middle of the photo slighter above centre. For Pam!

I like the colours here; the orange, greys, greens and blues. Rock samphire is abundant here.

For Pam! Granite at its Cornish best.

El Cancho de La Bola, home of vultures. Sierra de La Cabrera. I'm hard pushed to name better walking country

Granite kingdom: La Sierra de La Cabrera

This large granite boulder on Carn Brae is good fun for scrambling and bouldering on.

View from Carn Brea to Carn Marth.

Sierra de La Cabrera granite, close by the Monastery.

Between Logan Rock and Penberth Cove, some excellent granite cliff scenery is to be had! Faintly on the horizon can be seen the western coastline of The Lizard Peninsula from Praa Sands on the left, past Mullion Cove in the centre to Kynance Cove on the right. I haven't visited these places since I had a camera and had hoped to do so this summer. Alas, it will have to wait another year!

The Promontory is commonly known as Logan Rock but it must have a proper name as Logan Rock only refers to a once rocking stone on the top. The area around the isthmus and a bit landward is the site of a defended ancient settlement called Trereen Dinas (South). 'South' to distinguish it from a similarly named ancient settlement site on Gurnard's Head on the north coast. But I just can't find out the name for the promontory as a whole!. Can you spot the two yachts?

On the South West Peninsula Coast Path as it passes Trereen Dinas (South) with the Logan Rock promontory near Porthcurno. Project 21 August 2021. First posted 2018. H. A. N. W: E:everyone!

Granite. La Sierra de La Cabrera.

I couldn't resist one more of the General! The last one I think!

This rock seems to be having a disputacious conversation between its two heads! After all these aeons, you would have thought they could agree to disagree!

Granite shapes. Sierra de La Cabrera.

Sierra de La Cabrera granite. Home to Griffin vultures but not on that day. Best on black and full screen. Faintly visible in the foreground are wild dwarf daffodils.