I’m delighted to be hosting Sunday Stills for Terry Webster Schrandt during August while she takes a blogging break.
This week’s theme is Beautiful Beaches and we have lots to choose from in the UK. I love spending time by the ocean. The beach heading the post is Bamburgh in Northumberland, overlooked by the impressive castle.
The photos above and below are images of Porthminster Beach at St Ives in Cornwall. We stayed there many times when we lived down south.
We also spent a lot of time at Carbis Bay which is just down the coast a little way from St Ives.
The beach at Rhos on Sea is much closer to home and great for building sand castles.
Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast has a beach of two halvesβsand and pebbles.
On the pebble beach the ‘stone man’ as we used to call him, could often be seen balancing stones at incredible angles.
And the lovely stretch of Newborough Beach and sand dunes on Angelsey.
At low tide Llanddwyn Island is accessible on foot from Newborough. Llanddwyn translates to the Church of St Dwynwen. She is the Welsh patron saint of lovers and lived during the 5th century AD. The legend goes that after a failed romance and to avoid an arranged marriage Dwynwen retreated to Llanddwyn and lived the life of a hermit.
Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders
- Please create a new post for the theme.
- Title your post a little differently than mine.
- Donβt forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post. I also recommend adding your postβs URL into the comments.
- Entries for this theme can be shared all week. Use hashtag #SundayStills for sharing on social media.
A beautiful post Cathy and funny we’re both guest-hosting a photo challenge! π We wish you and yours a very happy Sunday and Eivor and Pearl will link some beach photos during the week π€ππ xxx
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Thanks so much π€ and yes, quite a coincidence! Thank you, hope you’re having a lovely day and look forward to your photos πππxxx
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Thank you Cathy π€ππ xxx
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I’ll be linking to your post in a day or two π€xxx
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Awesome! π€π xxx
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Such lovely beaches, Cathy. And thank you for the information about Dwynwen. I know we’ve talked about her before, but it’s good to know some more about her life. How sad that she became a hermit.
I’ve visited some of the beaches in your post and enjoyed the one at Lyme Regis. I’m always amazed by how those who build those stone statues get the stones to balance. I always thought it was done with magic. Maybe it is?
I’ll be linking to SundayStills in this week’s Wordless Wednesday post.
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I love Lyme Regis, one of my favourite places. It’s incredible how the stones are balanced. I thought they must be glued somehow until I saw him actually do it. Perhaps it is magic!
There’s quite a bit more to the legend of Dwynwen. I gathered she chose to become a hermit because her true love was turned to a pillar of salt.
Look forward to seeing your post π
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Very nice photos. There are so many great beaches around Britain. I used to live for a while near those Cornish beaches and it was a pleasure to walk out on them. Here’s a beach close to where I live now: https://grahamsisland.com/2020/08/02/%ca%bbanaeho%ca%bbomalu-bay-beach/
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Thanks so much, Graham. If it wasn’t for the uncertain weather the beaches here could be anywhere really. The Cornish ones especially, and those in Northumberland too.
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Beautiful photos, Cathy. I’m surprised to see the palm trees, though!
Here’s my link: https://jacqbiggar.com/2020/08/02/visiting-canadabeaches-sundaystills/
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Thanks, Jacquie. We even have palm trees up here in North Wales! They must be pretty hardy π
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Lovely shots!
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Thanks so much π
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Hello! Love the beautiful beaches you have shared! Thank you for hosting the challenge! π Here’s a visit to Washington’s Ruby Beach. https://catsandtrailsandgardentales.com/2020/08/02/ruby-beach-at-olympic-national-park/
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Hello π Thank you very much. I love your beach, and the name!
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Gorgeous! How did you manage to find all those empty beaches? I imagine you running onto crowded beaches and shouting “Shark!” and everyone running madly away… π
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Iβll have to try that π Actually it was just luck and some timing π
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Beautiful beaches, Cathy! I was amazed by those Palm trees too. Glad to see some regulars linking their posts to your blog this week! I’m enjoying my break so far. I just returned from our Mammoth Lakes trip in the Eastern Sierras with family.
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Thanks, Terri π Glad you’re having a good break…enjoy!
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