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On doing a bit of beach combing today……We came across this cruise ship laying off the English South coast all abandoned, the CraZyGang decided to call a meeting to decide if the Sheltie land rules apply, …..i.e anything lost dropped or misplaced, that looks like fair bounty, is far game and immediately becomes the property of the Sheltie that is first on the scene……Now the big question is…Does that Sheltie law apply to maritime law and this abandoned ship!!!!….And if the answer is yes (and the overwhelming view is ~yes~ it is) just how are we going board her without getting the paws wet…..And I hope dear reader that it is not lost on you, that you have noticed that when that question was asked, that all eyes were too fall on me…… and to think that silly me thought that they were waiting for me to take a photo… Ummmmm….So let me get this straight… all I have to do now is swim across to the ship….Somehow get myself on deck…..Lower one of the small boats mounted on the deck….Row back….Pick you all up…..Row back…..Use the hoist I lowered the boat down with, to hoist you all on deck…..You have got to be joking…..You will never persuade me to do that …..What’s that….You’re tell me where you have hidden the beer fund money….I do it!!!!!!
And please don’t worry about the lockdowm…as this photo was taken last year, and kindly found by Halo to put on line as we have nothing new at the moment…x
Our Daily Challenge 17-22 : A Day at the Beach
I've a vast collection of stuff I've picked up on the beach.
At present I don't feel safe enough to go to the beach as with lockdown easing there are many people who have no idea how to behave on our beautiful coastline..
Petrogyphs created by Native Americans. This element probably is a representation of a great blue heron. It is known locally as "the phoenix" or "big bird." Comb Ridge area. Bears Ears National Monument. Near Bluff. San Juan Co., Utah.
A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "EDC - Every Day Carry". I usually take a comb with me wherever I go!
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Mowgli ... wearing her SPIDER8LESLEY hat ...
beach combing ... for treasures ...
with her little friend Mr. Sea Gull to keep her company ...
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BLYTHE-A-DAY
A flickr Group
JULY 2026: A (long) DAY AT THE BEACH
DAY 7: "BEACH COMBING"
DAY 17: "SEAGULL"
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Inspired by Flickr, i set to try this for myself.. Grabbed this beautiful old lens that i have been carrying with me for the last 24 years. It was passed to me when my father passed away and i finally put it to some use.
Unfortunately because of my awkward positioning while taking the shot, it is not as pin sharp as i wanted.. Maybe an ISO bump and a faster shutter speed would have gave me the result i wanted.. But, you live and learn :)
EXIF: Sigma 18-50mm (50mm) | ISO 100 |1/40s | f/11
I got very wet taking this image but I'm very pleased with the results
Image taken at Combs Reservoir
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The bleak heathlands and steep wooded combes around Hindhead were long known to be the haunt of Highwaymen and common thieves who preyed on travellers struggling up and down the long incline around the Devil's Punch Bowl. Such were their reputation that those wanting to journey over the heaths on the London to Portsmouth road would wait in the local inns to form parties before venturing onto the road, believing in the safety of numbers.
No such luck for the Unknown Sailor.
He is first recorded as visiting the Red Lion Inn at Thursley (just beyond the wooded ridge in the image) as he was walking from London to join his ship at Portsmouth on 24 September 1786. There he met three other seafarers, James Marshall, Michael Casey and Edward Lonegon. He generously paid for their drinks and food and was last seen leaving for Hindhead Hill (the Punch Bowl) with them. The three seafarers almost decapitated him, stripped him of his clothes and threw him down the valley. The three then made their way down the London to Portsmouth road and were arrested a few hours later trying to sell the murdered sailor's clothes at the Sun Inn in Rake near Petersfield.
Six months later they were sentenced and hung on chains on the summit of Gibbet Hill just a few yards from this memorial. Their bodies remained on the gibbet for years picked clean by the crows as a warning to others.
The memorial appears in Charles Dickens' novel 'Nicholas Nickleby' published in 1838-9.
'They [Nicholas Nickleby and Smike] walked upon the rim of the Devil's Punch Bowl; and Smike listened with greedy interest as Nicholas read the inscription upon the stone which, reared upon that wild spot, tells of a murder committed there by night. The grass on which they stood, had once been dyed with gore; and the blood of the murdered man had run down, drop by drop, into the hollow which gives the place its name. 'The Devil's Bowl,' thought Nicholas, as he looked into the void, 'never held fitter liquor than that!'
Even the memorial has a curse: 'Cursed be the Man who injureth or removeth this Stone.'
The area became synonymous with tales of hauntings, apparitions and witchcraft and in 1851 Sir William Erle paid for the erection of a granite Celtic Cross on Gibbet Hill on the site of the scaffold to dispel the superstitions.