Lundy, part 3 ..... scenery and wildlife.

Woke up this morning thinking, "It's Saturday, I can have a lie in!" Then I looked out of the window and saw a blue and red sunrise, started getting dressed to run up the hill and take photos, changed my mind as the colours faded and changed my mind again when the sky started to turn orange.

I'm experimenting with the different settings on the camera, might even look at the manual at some point, but the camera has a tendency to darken up sky pictures and if I use the 'sunset' setting, it puts an orange tinge on the picture.

Finally ..... Lundy, part 3.

I was looking for information about pirates on Lundy and I found this site giving Lundy's history. Check it out if you want to find out about the pirates.

http://www.lundypete.com/history.htm

This is the reason I had wanted to visit Lundy, the amazing scenery with spectacular granite rock formations.

The north end of the island looks fairly barren with just a thin layer of vegetation growing directly on the granite. The grey areas were covered in 1cm chips of granite that had fractured off the bedrock.

The end of the track that runs all the way along the island. There is another small lighthouse halfway down the cliff .

We saw the Soay sheep and ponies grazing all about the place. We also saw a lot of rabbit bones, apparently there had been an outbreak of myxomatosis the previous year which had almost decimated the vast rabbit population.

It was a very special day out and we will try to visit Lundy again, (it's about £40 each for the boat trip), so we'll have to save up. Some of our group, who did not enjoy the sea crossing , have said that once was enough.