BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 30 Jun 09 - 08:25 AM

Don't forget to pack your Fleetwood Mac'

RtS
(I'll get me rainhood)

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 01:04 PM

Ah.If you want sunsets, you should live on Orkney !! It's the most fantastic sky I've ever seen. (Western Isles are just as good) But you are right about the sunsets at Fleetwood, they can be really great.

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 08:53 AM

We always used to say sailor's delight, being brought up near the sea I suppose with strong maritime leanings in the family, though Richard Inwards' Weather Lore (1893) would confirm this:

Sky red in the morning
is a sailor's sure warning;
Sky red at night
is the sailor's delight

I believe shepherd's delight to be the more common, hence:

If you empty your bowels at night,
A shepherd will have a red face in the morning.

(Ivor Cutler)

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 07:52 AM

Like Snowdonia - Shepherds delight.

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 07:40 AM

Having travelled around a bit in my time, I'd have to say Fleetwood is the sunset capital of the UK - in summer anyway, although those midwinter sunsets over the Mount can be pretty impressive too:

Christmas Day 2007

Boxing Day 2008

Lytham's pretty cool too of course:

Snowdonia from Granny's Bay, 3rd Jan 2009

I might add that my camera is a bog standard £80 Fujipix digital and that no trickery has been used in any of these images whatsoever; if anything, they don't do it justice!

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 09 - 04:11 AM

Golden.

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 06:27 PM

And another: Happy Stragglers with Walney Wind Farm, planning permission for which went ahead in 2003 with 30 turbines in all completed by Autumn 2006..

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 05:25 PM

Fantastic photo, thanks - and there's even that gap of people either side of the stream of light, drawing the eye in. (Windfarm looks ghostly - I probably would have missed it without mention, and I doubt it was there when I visited in autumn 2000, as above.)

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 03:48 PM

Another more reddish sea - with distant windfarm; this is the return...

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: s&r
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 02:06 PM

No. The water in the foreground is the Wyre. The channel out to sea is to the right. Going to the left leads into deepest Lancashire eventually.

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 12:13 PM

...and that's "Fleetwood with its CHANNEL OUT" (me, above) on the left, yes?

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 08:24 AM

Cheers, WAV; Here's a nice one that captures Fleetwood's unique peninsularity...

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 08:05 AM

Nice plan view, but my favoutite here is "Crossing the Red (or Silver Sea."

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 27 Jun 09 - 05:52 PM

The Mount forms the focal point of Decimus Burton's original radial street plan for Fleetwood (1836?); as it turned out only half of this plan was realised as can be seen HERE in an aerial shot.

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Jun 09 - 05:31 PM

...I agree, S.O, I'll fix that shortly, thanks...I must have been thinking there was a word other than "the" before "Mount"..? But, as well as enjoying your additional pics, I just saw another, via a web-search, and it's definitely the Mount that I visited.

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 27 Jun 09 - 05:11 PM

A truly transcendental experience! An epic of Biblical proportions as we set out even as the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea...

Two miles later - the crumbling edifice that is the remains of The Wyre Light, still an important land & sea mark, but for how much longer?

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I would love to come along but am confined to crutches for a few weeks.

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery, JJ; might see you at The Saracen's one of these days!

Via a maritime 'Mount

We live within sound of the Mount clock bells (which wake me up quite regularly during the night) - but ditch the apostrophe!

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Jun 09 - 02:47 PM

Nice pic/nice walk I'd imagine.

Poem 120 of 230: A GOOD SEASIDE DAY - AUTUMN 2000

Via the art gallery,
    Blackpool how it used to be;
Via a famous tower,
    The Blackpool of the hour.
Via a maritime 'Mount,
    Fleetwood with its channel out.
And, via a coastline tram,
    The autumn-night lit-art jam.

From http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll)
Or http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book)

Subject: RE: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: John J
Date: 27 Jun 09 - 03:45 AM

The 'A Midsummer Night's Walk' clicky doesn't seem to work, although the other one does - and what a wonderful picture!

I would love to come along but am confined to crutches for a few weeks.

JJ

Subject: BS: A Midsummer Night's Walk - Fleetwood, UK
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 26 Jun 09 - 04:09 AM

Replacing the ever-popular annual Wreck Trek, tonight's walk out to The Wyre Light (1.5 miles) kicks off with registration at the Marine Hall car park in Fleetwood at 6.45pm. A unique opportunity to savour this unique piece of British coastline in the company of hundreds of other hearty souls all under the watchful eye of the RNLI & Coastguard, so if you're in the area its not to be missed!

For further details: A Midsummer Night's Walk

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I've put this into BS, but it really ought to be in Folklore as the Wreck Trek is a well established local custom, hereby modified, for whatever reason, but still likely to attract a fair crowd. Some years have seen more than 1,000, weather permitting of course, but if the portents are right last night's sunset as seen from Fleetwood would certainly be indicative of A Sailor's Delight, so more pics to follow I shouldn't wonder...