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On the second day of our visit we made an excursion to Herm, a small car free island a short ferry ride from Guernsey. We had got to St Peter Port in good time for the ferry which allowed me to take some pictures in the town. Ann had suggested the we make a project out of the trip. I thought using the Holga lens on my Nikon might be interesting, and also relaxing, as it is very light and you cannot really focus it properly! I started as the ferry left the dock in St Peter's Port and here are those few.

After lunch we drove south to visit Lihou Island, a small headland that gets cut off at high tide. The weather that had been cloudy in the morning became even more oppressive and there were some very stormy looking scenes over the water. On the mainland opposite the causeway is yet another German gun battery. Late that afternoon we all went down to St Peter Port which has some old bathing pools opposite castle Cornet, which came into its own as the lights came up.

True to form I am over a year late in getting these pictures on the blog.        October last year I went on a week long trip to Guernsey with some members of Cambridge Camera Club. The trip was very kindly organised by Ann Miles who had made a rough programme of things we could do each day. We had rented 3 cars between us so that we could get round the island and also so that we could be flexible in what different people wanted to photograph. We stayed  in Cobo Bay which is on the north east side of the island and arriving in the afternoon of the first day there was only time for a little photography. We were lucky to have a room with a balcony overlooking the sea, so I took some pictures of the other members of the group standing at the water's edge with their tripods.  The next morning we walked along the broad sands of Cobo Bay until we reached a rocky outcrop at the end. This promontory holds the remains of the Grande Rocque Battery. Dur...

Last weekend we visited the Lodge in Sandy, the RSPB headquarters. We had not been there before and I was surprised that there was such a large area of heathland in Bedfordshire. We were lucky to see a couple of firecrests, but not close enough to photograph. The day was the last of autumn with some glorious sunshine falling on the remains of the leaves.