Brean Down (Wednesday 16th March 2016)

On Wednesday I met up with my brother, the Spotlight Kid, in Somerset. We began at RSPB Greylake and had a picnic lunch there before spending time at the hide there where we saw plenty of wigeon, great white egrets, little egrets, shovellers and a distant marsh harrier.

We then carried on to NT Brean Down, near Weston-Super-Mare, to see the sea. It is possible to walk up to the top of the down shown in the Blip and walk around it. It looks like quite a climb and we decided to leave that for another day and instead explored Berrow Beach, a couple of miles south of Brean - an extensive beach, as the tide was out, with a nature reserve and sand dunes behind it.

Greylake and Berrow are illustrated in the Extras.

L.
19.3.2016 (1246 hr)

Blip #1784 (#2034 including archived blips)
Consecutive Blip #004
Day #2183
LOTD #1018 (#1142 including archived blips)

Somerset series
Seaside series
Coastline series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Yellow) and Pentax smc P-DA 17-70mm F4 AL (IF) SDM lens

A Day In Somerset, 15 March 2016 (23 photos in Flickr album)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Irma Thomas - Live Again (1965)
On the drive from Greylake to Brean I was listening to Bob Stanley talking to Stuart Maconie about a new compilation he has curated for St Etienne, Saint Etienne Present Songs For The Carnegie Deli. It imagines the sort of music you might have heard in a New York diner such as the Carnegie Deli, featured in such films as Broadway Danny Rose. The three tracks he played were all great and also new to me. I loved Porgy and The Monarchs' If It's For Real and Dee Dee Sharp's Deep Dark Secret, but the best was this Burt Bacharach and Hal David song by Irma Thomas that was not even released at the time.

One year ago:
Smokey 1359 hr