Tag: Mount Batten

#1391 theoldmortuary ponders

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Spring arrives for a cafe hound.

One of our favourite walks is around the Mount Batten Peninsula. Although the humans love a cafe stop, Lola is obsessed by them.  Our walks at Mount Batten are timed to fit in with life, chores and the weather. In winter the cafe that Lola favours operates on restricted opening hours. But Easter has come and gone and they have increased their opening hours. For the first time in months our walk and the cafe being open coincided. In this photo Lola has taken full possession of a dog blanket and has the look of a woman who will not be leaving any time soon. She appears to have forgotten that the title of the event is actually a dog walk.

Purely for vanity I am sharing one of last summers hybrid photographs from Mount Batten. A sailing ship moored up just beyond  the camper van.

View from Mount Batten

Lola may think she is hard done by if the cafe is closed but she is never without some degree of comfort on her trips to Mount Batten.

#1365 theoldmortuary ponders

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©Anne Bobber

Mythical creatures on a mystical night. We camped overnight under a full moon and read books about mythical creatures.

As luck would have it the mythical creature in the book was a Leviathan which we had visited earlier in the day.

Overlooking Plymouth Sound for overnight camping we were not troubled by the low sad songs of unhappy Leviathans. Instead they jumped and frolicked in the bright moonlight which was untroubled by clouds or any other weather predicament.

The Leviathan and a full moon at Stonehouse
The Leviathan and Plymouth Hoe

It helps, of course, that Nana drew a Leviathan a few years ago.

#1348 theoldmortuary ponders

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Johanna Lucretia.

For tide-time reasons we have moved to another bay for our evening swims this week. The peaceful arrival of a Tall Ship was in marked contrast to the business- like Naval vessels or Ferries that keep us fascinated at Firestone Bay.

Mount Batten was a prehistoric trading port, dating back to the Iron Age. It has been a key location for the defence of Plymouth and was an Air Force Base where Lawrence of Arabia was stationed. It has, over time,  developed into a water sports hub since the  Air Force moved out. All a bit hotch potch with no clear development plan. The area is currently in the process of being upgraded and made more attractive to tourists and visitors of all sorts. I suspect I have never mentioned it in a blog but it is a regular spot for us to dog walk and sometimes camp overnight. Free parking by a beach is always a good thing.

The sea temperature this week is a balmy 16 degrees C. Last year the waters of Plymouth Sound never reached such heights, even during August or September so to do so by July 1st is quite lovely.

Another lovely thing is to swim , drink a cup of tea and then go straight to sleep after a gorgeous sunset. No shower, just lovely salty skin and slightly damp hair. The damp dogs are less appealing.

Sunset at Mountbatten