Boat Ramp

During the summer, this boat ramp is used to load tour boats from the beach, thereby preventing wet feet. In the winter, there’s not much call for boat tours so this ramp sits idle, pulled high up on the beach out of reach of the tides.

Beachy Head

A little further west along the coastline, between Eastbourne and Brighton, is Beachy Head. Despite some impressive cliffs, and that very tourist-oriented website, not everything associated with Beachy Head is as pleasant: the site is also popular with those wishing to end it all, and has been for centuries, as this report states.

The photo, taken from perilously close to the edge (I wonder how my photographers have fallen from here while trying to get shots of the cliffs?), shows the high point of the cliff and the lighthouse.

Alameda Sunset

A slight deviation from photos of my recent trip home to the UK, this shot was taken from my balcony in Alameda in mid-December. Don’t see many sunsets like this in Alameda, but when they happen it sure puts on a good show. This is one of the better ones I’ve seen in the last year.

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This small boat was sitting on one of the (pebble) beaches in Eastbourne, East Sussex. This beach was our first stop of a day sight seeing on the south coast; the boat was one of two on the beach – the other one will appear on the blog later in the week.

Merry Christmas

A photo from a rainy Christmas day in Alameda. This leaf has been sitting on the garden area in front of my parking space for a while now and I have been meaning to stop and photograph it. This morning seemed like as good a time as any. Merry Christmas everybody 🙂