It’s been a while since I last posted as I haven’t been going out too much because of Covid-19 and I’ve been spending a lot of time working in the garden. Now that it’s getting colder I thought I’d look through some photographs I hadn’t published before and post them.
Much the same time as my trip to Newcastle, I also went to the northeast coast. It’s got a lot going for it – great scenery and long sandy beaches – especially if the weather is good. I took along my Pentax P30T and the kit zoom lens.
St Mary’s Lighthouse is on a tiny island just north of Whitley Bay and is linked to the mainland by a short concrete causeway which is submerged at high tide.
The lighthouse and cottages were built in 1898 on the site of an 11th-century monastic chapel and was finally decommissioned in 1984.
St Mary’s is now open as a visitor attraction with a small museum, a visitor centre, and a café. It is possible to see seals on the rocks at times.
Not far away is the village of Seaton Sluice where a cut in the rocks was made in 1763 to allow better use of the small harbour.
All photographs taked with a Pentax P30T with f3.5 28-80mm Pentax-A zoom using Ilford Delta400 developed in DDX as recommended. Negatives were scanned using an Plustek OptiScan 8100 scanner.
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