Sunday, 9 September 2007

Rocky Cove, looking towards Silverdale

Drove over to Silverdale to join a gym this afternoon, after finally realising that I have to either make an effort to get fit or give up and just be a fat old bloke from now on. Last chance and all that....
On the way back to Arnside I stopped off at this cove and took some photographs, despite the light being completely flat and dull as ditchwater. The rock platforms left behind as the sea cut through the cliffs are deeply fissured and look as though they are made of clay, but the limestone and red marl are harder than they look and are withstanding the sea much better than their east coast counterparts.
Silverdale used to be a port, where coastal ships unloaded, and the sands here were once part of an ill fated reclamation project.
I'm just hoping that going to a gym will enable me to carry on photographing this unique and fascinating part of Britain for a good deal longer. I know that Morecambe Bay is hardly the Amazon or the Skeleton Coast, but there are still parts of it that I haven't even seen yet, let alone photographed.

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