Lymington Quay on the Beaulieu River on the edge of the New Forest hints at its fishing past but now meets up with the modern leisure sailing world.
Lymington Quay.
beach & tideline
Hamble River.
Little Egret Hamble River.
End of the Peir.
End of the pier and the end of the season Southsea Hampshire. The people have gone home the lights are turned off and the paint has faded.
Red Sails.
Red sails in the sunset
Way out on the sea
Carry my loved one
Home safely to me
Red Sails in the Sunset lyrics by songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. {written in 1935}
Young Tern.
A juvenile Common Tern on Meon Beach.
Colour is out.
Warsash.
As we approach the 80th anniversary of D-Day I visited the village of Warsash on the River Hamble. Today Naval vessels and Landing Craft have been replaced by pleasure boats.
G.A.F.I.R.S.
A few hour’s walk out to Gilkicker Fort on this wet morning and a stop to take a look at Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service.
Gosport Lifeboat Station is a volunteer-operated independent lifeboat station located near the Gilkicker peninsula at Gosport – it operates lifeboat services in the Solent from Portsmouth Harbour to Titchfield Haven. There are 235 Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat stations around the United Kingdom, and there are 65 lifeboat stations which are not owned or managed by the RNLI, GAFIRS is one of these. Like the RNLI, All Lifeboat services work with HM Coastguard their equipment, training, and procedures comply with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s Rescue Boat Code of Practice.
Like clock-work.
Sanderlings have a distinctive run/walk this is partly due to only having 3 toes on each foot, they are missing the hind toe. They run like wind-up little clockwork toys.
Sea Hare.
Commonly known as sea hares, The clade Anaspidea are medium-sized to large opisthobranch gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein. Sorting out some memory sticks I came across these pictures I took at Meon Shore Beach in the summer of 2019. I have only ever found 2 of these interesting creatures and have not seen one since this sighting.
Continued Reflections from my World. 