Leigh on sea, Arnside with Boats.

Old Leigh, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Summer holidays soon, and time to go and see my family in Leigh on sea. I always try to find time to photograph the 'Old Town' part of Leigh, down by the water. Cockle boats, seafood stalls and old pubs full of old fishermen and young yachtsmen, boatyards full of abandoned projects and the mounds of crushed cockle shells that make up the foreshore and the space behind the jetties where the boats unload.
Everything that Arnside doesn't have as a result of the tidal pattern of Morecambe Bay. But then, Arnside also doesn't have piles of litter, the most expensive car park outside of Knightsbridge and it doesn't smell of vinegar.
I like them both, and I like photographing them both, but for very different reasons.