Glourious weather tempted us to the seaside twice, over at Morecambe Bay, on consecutive weekends... The first stop was Hest Bank, in Lancashire. Mainly for a walk, but also to try it as a photography location. A Barrow-Preston service is seen above, from the top of the footbridge alongside the crossing.
The light was good, there was next to no breeze, and it was pleasantly warm too.
For railway photography it wasn't brilliant- even in bright sunlight the camera was struggling a bit to capture just how fast these trains were going. Pendolino on a Glasgow-London Euston service, seen above...
Lots of aircraft about, so a few pictures were snapped whilst The Childs played.
As luck would have it an excursion, a Northern Belle land-cruise was passing by, so a quick shot from alongside the crossing barriers.
The second weekend prompted a drive out to the coast again for much the same reasons- nice weather, little stroll, picnic and an ice cream- this time to Grange-over-Sands. This small town is very nice, a well-kept little holiday town at the south end of Cumbria. Once a proper seaside resort, the estuary silted up and now it looks out over a salt marsh towards the bay.
Pride of the town are the well-kept park and promenade.
The ornamental park containing a pond full of rare-breed ducks and geese.
Less variety for train pictures, particularly on a sunday, but a nice setting. Sprinter from Barrow to Preston above and below...
...and a class 185 going the other way.
Then, picnic eaten, it was under the railway and onto the promenade
On the walk back to the car, after ice cream, another sprinter passing...
The view inland.
And nearly back to the car. All in all, a nice couple of days in the sunshine.
We're just back from a busy fortnight shooting various project work in Wales, so hopefully the next few posts will be from those photo sessions...
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