One of my favourite Manx countryside walks.
The Walk
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Category Archives: Landscape
Bluebells
The bluebells have eventually arrived, much later than last year due to this year’s cold, wintery start to spring. This is the electric railway crossing on Old Laxey Hill which leads down to the bay.
Pure and simple
Sometimes, like the bland days like earlier on today when there’s not really much going on around the beach.
Birdwatch
Molly on this morning’s springwatch.
Heart of the Ocean
“I’m flying Rose” sprang to mind when I took these photographs in Aqaba.
Agneash and the Laxey Wheel
It was much sunnier yesterday so I walked along Ham and Egg Terrace, past the Laxey Wheel and the Salmon Centre to Agneash which is a beautiful little village high above Laxey. The village leads onto open landscape to Snaefell Mountain.
Wild
The island is taking a battering today with rough seas, cancelled ferries, snow grinding most of the island’s roads to a halt and power cuts. Luckily for us in Laxey at sea level, we don’t have any snow that’s sticking yet or any power cuts like other parts of the island but disruption does mean a postponed celebration party with friends for tonight. Hopefully, things will calm down before my daughter returns to the island from university on the mainland on Monday or the ferry will be either cancelled or a very unpleasant crossing. 
Port St Mary and Bradda Head
Port St Mary in the south of the island on a very rare, warm and beautiful day in November.
March Laxey Sunrise
Yesterday morning’s mottled sky.
Manannin’s Cloak
I woke up this morning to a dense sea mist covering the Island. Whilst taking a walk through Ballannette nature reserve and wetlands, at times the fog was almost too dense to have any good visibility.
Manannin’s Cloak is the name given by Islanders to this thick fog/mist, relating back to old Manx folklore.
Let the great wheel spin 