• Tintagel

Visiting friends are always a good excuse for an excursion.  This one was the first of the year to Tintagel.  It was a clear, sunny and warm day for the time of year.  A day later and we’d have frozen in the sunless, bitter NE wind.

Looking south at ‘The Island’:

Looking north from ‘The Island’:

What I call ‘The Claw’ – it looks particularly threatening in a storm:

St Materiana in the distance, above a column of slate whose jagged profile can take on perilous new forms: