Hi, all. Welcome to a new week!
Cirrus: Brixham ah so many memories of holidays...they had a swimming pool that they filled with sea water and cleaned with chlorine(why!!) and it bleached my swimming costume..devestating as I was only 5!! Still visit my oldest in more ways than one friend in Dartmouth stunning part of our wonderful country.
My all time favorite place is Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel and the starry skies I have seen there were just the best. I live in the Highlands and we do have amazing skies but for me they so far have been the best. I am sure someone will challange me on that but it is all very personal.
Lundy island Wendy. Right , I shall remember that. From where do you catch the ferry? (I think one may actually go from Weston super Mare)
The best sky I have ever seen was in Baja California. We were travelling from La Paz to San Diego in a bus and it broke down in the desert at night. One good side effect was that we were able to admire the most amazing sky while we waited for the bus to be repaired. We had just witnessed the greatest solar eclipse for 140 years the day before.
There is a place in Baja where whales come to give birth. Annette probably knows all about them.
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Mmm, I really do envy you that Tiger. Did you see the eclipse from a place where there was no artificial lighting to come on when it got dark?
Unknown said: Mmm, I really do envy you that Tiger. Did you see the eclipse from a place where there was no artificial lighting to come on when it got dark?
Yes myself and two others saw it from the beach at Todos Santos. We were the only three there. Todos Santos did not have a road to it until 1985 (6 years before we were there). The lighting was not something we thought about in advance but we were rather glad when we did not have that problem. Gosh that will be 20 years come 11th July.
Just bliss
OG You could have waved across at me from Portpatrick - I can often see it with the naked eye when walking my dogs at Scrabo Country Park!
The best night sky I've seen was from Fair Isle, where I've spent a few months over a couple of years on NTS Thistle Camps and just visiting! No street lights, the island's jenny went off at about 11pm, so you were left with loads of stars, milky way, shooting stars, northern lights or alternatively a huge fog bank lit up by one of the lighthouses! And a pretty much 360° sea horizon. I live in the highlands too and yes we get amazing skies but all the hills get in the way of stargazing!
Ferry Oldenburg goes from Bideford or Illfracombe depending on tides. Hate the boat so go between Nov and Feb an go by heli from Hartland. Amazing switch off place.