Downderry

Spring is here again, today. It is warm in the sun on the beach, and you can walk for miles and miles. Downderry is on the south coast almost on the border with Devon. Some of the slate is even tinged with the sort of red or pink that you get further along the coast towards Dawlish and beyond, but the long fringe of granite spines that reach into the sea seem very Cornish. It a strange beach - at first it is bordered by peoples' back gardens, complete with plastic gnomes, herons, goats and even eagles; but walking eastwards towards Devon you eventually get away from this, and find deserted greyish sandy beach backed by high cliffs. Not a brilliant day for photographs, but I do have some driftwood, not to mention a red slate rock....