One of my intentions when I retired was to have more opportunities to get out with my camera gear. I haven’t had a day in the time since I retired to get out and about. Ok, I know holidays and building wok are all self inflicted, so to speak. However, yesterday was the first day. I has been thinking about visiting the area around Glasson Dock and Cockerham Sands, as I knew there were maybe some things that would be worth shooting, precisely what I wasn’t sure. Here are a selection of the results from the time I spent in and around this area.
I decided to take both my Fuji XT-% and lenses, along with my Leica Q3, as I knew whilst there would be some walking it wouldn’t be very hilly and so carrying wouldn’t be a problem. The Leica images are all hand held and the Fuji images are tripod mounted which is my 3 legged thing Corey travel tripod.
It amazes me that there are so many abandoned boats dotted around the coast of the UK. I was pleasantly surprised when I found one of the beaches, well more a walk way rather than a beach, that there were a number of abandoned boats. As you can see from the image above this boat is abandoned on the sandbanks. I had to pick my way carefully through the grasses as there were hidden trenches and boggy sections to avoid. Leica Q3.
This image gives yo more of a sense of the scale of this part of Glasson Dock beach area. I walked as far as I could with the fence of the docks behind me but in a raised up vantage point. What caught my eye about this scene was the 4 boats that are in a diagonal line across the image. The boat at the far right is the boat of the last image. Fuji XT-5
Glasson Dock is the home to a lovely marina> I decided to explore the area and set off following the path. The bridge over the canal leads to the road that winds its way round to the marina entrance. What caught my eye here was that the canal and the path all take the eye to the archway under the bridge. The view beyond was clearly visible as you can see from this image. If I’m honest I struggled to take a compelling image in and around the marina, so there aren’t any images included in this little set.
I followed the road from the entrance to the marina and that lead me to what OS Maps described as a viewing point. If you’ve visited any of the official viewing points in and around the Lake District you will know what I mean. Curved stone walls with metal facial panels that set out what the hills and dales are in the distance. I did visit the view point but this bench caught my eye. A bench with a view, it is a view despite Heysham Power station being in the distance. This is Morecambe Bay. Leica Q3.
Having had a lovely lunch in Glasson Dock, I headed off to look for the ruins of Cockerham Abbey. It was s short drive along some single track country lanes. I parked at Cockerham Sands Caravan Park and followed the coastal path. You can see the ruins as you move around the small headland. There isn’t very much of the ruins left but there is a building, albeit a small one, and some stones and a few bits of wall. You can see in the distance out in the bay Plover Scar lighthouse. Leica Q3.
I’ve taken images of this lighthouse before and of course this was the early afternoon, so the light and the tides were not right. I liked the layers that you can see here from the shore out into the bay. with, of course the power station dominating the skyline. Fuji XT-5.