Time Flies

It's been some time since the last blog post and it may look like nothing has been happening. That's not true of course, it's just an indication that if you are going to blog, time has to be set aside from the doing, to enable the blogging.
On top of this is a need to do things that are worth blogging anyway and the reality is the mundane day-to-day living isn't terribly interesting. Add in a couple of wildlife shoots where the wildlife hasn't played the game and a near three week break soon happens.
With the weather set fair for the first part of the Easter weekend, we decided to try our luck with what Portland had to offer. I've never found the island to be a warm place, I've even felt cold there on a sunny July day in the past, but Good Friday 2014 has been different. We spent a full seven hours on the cliffs between Church Ope Cove and Portland Bill and were warm the whole time.
There was plenty to occupy us as well, with plenty of Wheatear and Pied Wagtails about, not to mention Stonechat and the lovely sound of the numerous Skylarks. Highlight though was at the end of the day when we spotted a Peregrine Falcon beside Cheyne Weares Look Out.
I was also privileged to see the Weymouth lifeboat on a shout for the first time. A boyhood fascination with the lifeboat was born out of living next door to a crewman and many's the time I have watched them launch from the Nothe Parade boathouse. I had a VHF radio that would give me Channel 16 so that I could hear where they were going and even sometimes the names of the crew being passed to the Coastguards. But my lack of sea legs prevented me from trying to do anything to join the crew.
So after nearly 50 years, to see the boat actually underway on a job was quite thrilling and I just had to get the shot I've posted here. A while later I learned they had been on their way to rescue a broken down fishing boat from a point 29 miles south west of Portland Bill. It was a nice day for it and maybe one that I could have coped with, without the need for the Kwells!