Anchorsholme

 I DO LIKE 🐝🐝...🐝SIDE  ?  3 to 4 miles

PROMENADERS:- Danny, Mike, Jim, John, Anthony ... 

                    ............and Mick.

Mike sent us very accurate and specific instructions where we were to park. We all claimed to be confused but then when we had parked up each and every one declared they knew it well. "Parked here loads of times"

 "Umph !" said Mike  as he pulled into a parking spot.

Inspite of traffic problems in Penwortham Jim was here sooner than we expected.

The tide was in but sadly the sand was out.

John surmised that this area was used by lots of elderly people.

Parking availableon the spot. Lots of benches for sitting admiring the view and reading the paper. Or...Staying in the warmth of your car !!  And an ice cream van parked here during the summer months.

Oh 'eck  ! There's two of  'im.

Fastened to the sea wall at intervals were little numbered fish. John W  thinks they were the random numbers allocated to the anglers taking part in competitions.

 

Just offshore from the cafe ( which appears to be wind powered ) was the rather unusual sculpture which some think resembles the rib cage of a beached whale. It is called "The Sea Shell".

Just taking a breather and deciding if an early "brew" was a good idea or not ?  NOT was the decision.

There's that "dead Whale".

At one point as we walked along the prom there was a lot of construction activity. The sea defences were being strengthened. New rocky groynes were being constructed with concrete ramps to enable emergency rescue vehicles to drive over them.

At the end of one rocky groyne the sculpture of the "OGRE" (see a previous blog "Cleveleys September 2021") was just beginning to emerge as the tide began to ebb.  The Ogre turns green as it is submerged by each tide. It is given and annual "Power Wash" so that it remains an " 'ORRIBLE OGRE" and doesn't transmogrify into a "JOLLY GREEN GIANT".

We learnt all this from a friendly construction worker.

We continued along the rather magnificent prom (Must have cost a fortune) which has become a major attraction for visitors to the Fylde Coast.

Then we came across this monstrous "Paddle". Legend (recently created) has it that it was used by the Ogre to stir up the sea causing trouble for the coastal residents,.

We continued along the prom as the sun, low in the sky, turned the unusual but attractive lighting posts into delightfully artistic silhouettes.

 

Then..... after a hastily arranged rendezvous, we were briefly joined by Mick Kilgallon (on the left), a local resident and erstwhile Meanderthal.

Camera exchange. Mike is still with with us but is a shadow of his former self.

Mick K told us there was a good cafe on Anchorsholme Park., run by Blackpool Council. 

To purchase lunch of course money is needed,

Where's mi wallet !  

    Where's mi cards ! 

        Where's mi cash 

            Nothing in either pocket !"

The cafe was good and reasonably priced... unless like Jim you wanted "Foliage" which bumped the price up.

PROOF WE WERE IN ANCHORSHOLME

We all know what an Anchor is (an anchor is an anchor is an ANCHOR !! ) but what's a holm(e)

A Holme is a small island or Islet that is submerged at highwater..... OR...... it is a piece of flat land by the sea or river which floods whenever an especially high water incident occurs.

Another fascinating sculpture. A list of all the shipwrecks along the Fylde coast. Who could have imagined there could be so many ?

Just now  a little moth is hoping to find shelter from winters worst. I have my doubts.  It was such a striking moth that I decided to look through my reference books to identify it. After ploughing through possible a thousand pictures of moths I decided it was definitely.............................A MOTH !

After the morning's brilliant sunshine the ebbing tide seems to have triggered a mist.  By the sea such mist are called Sea Frets or Haars.  These words are mainly used in the North East of England where they occur more frequently. They are caused by moist air cooling and filling the air with minute water drops. The morning sun and then the cool afternoon created such conditions.

Whilst he was stopping to take photos John's companions soon began to disappear into the mist.

What are those sculptures  ?  apparently JELLYFISH !!!

More delightful artworks.

Then a last look over the misty sea and HOMEWARD you landlubbers !

SEE YOU SOON

THE END

(Sea and SAND)

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