Cornwall Polly Joke and Crantock

 

I have got up early and walked down to Polly Joke beach to get a few drone images. The light is really nice and very little wind.  it is however due to cloud over , and i can see out over the sea in the distance it is already clouding over quickly.

The sea is a Fabulous colour .  Gull rock is just visible over off Holywell Bay in the background.

Here is a full panorama image , originally shot with 21 frames , but i have removed a few for composition 

                                                                     6 Frame Vertorama 

I have walked around the headland to view Crantock bay , a quick vertorama image before the cloud came over.   I will walk back to the van now as its going to be cloudy for the rest of today , but tomorrow i will take Ozzy for a photo shoot on Crantock beach.

The next morning it is blue sky , time for the long walk to Crantock with Ozzy.

                                                   All shot with 5dsr  100-400mmL 

A very happy pup :)

That was a great morning , the tide has come in a long way so i need to climb up the sand dunes now as the short cut up the steps is now under water .

                                           The way down to the beach Steps under water now!

The end of another great day in Cornwall.

Cornwall Holiday pt 3 Crantock Beach/Holywell Sunset

 

This morning a nice walk to Crantock , one of my favorite beaches.     

Its a long walk across the meadows to Polly Joke, then up over Pentire headland and around the coastal path to cross over the sand dunes behind the beach.  If the tide is out far enough there is a  set of steps to get down about half way ,  but as you can see the tide is too high at present so will have to walk right the way round to the dunes in the distance.

                                          What a stunning day , beautiful blue sky and water .

The dues are where we can get down to the beach.........  hopefully 

This way to the beach,  and a huge drop off that both dogs leapt down and found we couldnt follow!  Ozzy jumped back up but Chester with shorter legs couldn't manage to get back up and had to go around the outside .

                                                                   Where is Chester  lol

Straight into the sea ...........

Time to walk back now, we have managed to walk across to the steps halfway along the cliffs now the tide has gone out.

                                                        One last image across the bay 

Tonight i have walked down to Holywell for hopefully a good sunset

It is looking good so far , fairly good waves crashing on the top of the beach so i am going to try get the low sun light illuminating the waves.

                                                       5dsr  17-40 L    1/20 th  f13  iso 100

         1/20 th sec    i shot a series of frames in "continuous mode "to hopefully catch the light on the wave tops as they break.   out of about 30 frames i got a couple that worked out how i wanted.

                 A long exposure to show the receding wave across the sand.         1.3 secs  f8  iso 100

                                                                              1.3 seconds   F8 

Time to head back to the van now ,  one last phone image...........

Cornwall Holiday Crantock beach the Kelsey Head july 14 th

It is Sunday morning, and as its going to be very busy down on the beach on this warm sunny day we have driven  down to Crantock beach early before it gets busy , the tide is on the turn so its a long walk out to get to the waterline across the sands.     This is a stunning Cornish beach , with crystal clear shallow water  and the dogs love it !

Finally after negotiating the stream and all the sandhollows we are at the sea,   the Terrible Twosome are straight in the water swimming.

                                                                           Mad spanner!

Chester is going way out after the ball, the waves are getting bigger as the tide is now on the way in.

The tide is racing in over the shallow sand, and we are walking backwards while knee deep in the waves .   Look at the water clarity, amazing!

                                                                         Drowned Rat!

Time to go now, they have had a good long time in the sea, now to go back to the campsite for the afternoon.

                                                  They don't look like they want to leave!
There is already a que to get into the NT carpark, and getting the van up the narrow lane with loads of cars was a bit of a struggle, good job we came early!



Its early evening now, time to walk down across the Kelseys and get a drone flight in over Poly Joke and west Pentire head.
Its a nice easy walk from the Crossroads campsite over to the headland and the beach locally known as PolyJoke, its a warm evening with only a slight breeze.

Up with the drone, Over to  the left is Pentire and Crantock, with Fistral just visible in the distance behind ,West Pentire head and PolyJoke beach in front.

                                   The Chick Island in front of Kelsey head.  9 frames merged

                               A different perspective of the same view.    9 frames merged.

                         5 frame Vertorama , lovely cloud but it isn't colouring up unfortunately.

                                              Topdown over the edge of Poly joke beach.

                                               Crantock on the left , Poly Joke on the right.

                               Another 5 frame Vertorama ,  not sure It has worked to well.
                                                   But it shows Crantock beach well.

I'm out of batteries , a quick shot of the sunset which has suddenly coloured up momentarily before losing all the colour completely within a couple of minutes!

The end of another great day in Cornwall...…………….