Dredge

Lantic Bay, Dredger, River Fowey, Cornwall, October 2025
Lantic Bay, Dredger, River Fowey, Cornwall, October 2025

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Keeping channels clear

enabling navigation

River Fowey dredged

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by Scooj

Death and decay

Cetacean Carcass, Lantic Bay, Cornwall, October 2024
Cetacean Carcass, Lantic Bay, Cornwall, October 2024

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He’ll come for us all

dispassionate grim reaper

a matter of time

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by Scooj

Lantic Bay

Lantic Bay, Cornwall, October 2023
Lantic Bay, Cornwall, October 2023

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Moody mists roll in

hanging on an autumn wind

droplets on my hair

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by Scooj

Perfect day

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And on the high cliffs

rock doves watch our ev’ry move

while we watch our rods

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by Scooj

Family walk

 

Boxing Day ramble

Lantic Bay revisited

as good as ever.

 

by Scooj

Thursday doors

Doors 47 – Fowey

My sister and family have recently bought a farmhouse in Cornwall not too far south of Bodmin. This is excellent news for me, as there is a ready-made bolt-hole for short breaks with the family and dog. In fact I posted some Fowey doors a short while back on such a visit with my daughter in August. Even better than that is that it can serve as a new base for my annual fishing trips with my fishing partner of thirty years.

At the start of September, he and I went away for a few days and our primary task was to check out the coastline from St Austell to Plymouth. Now I am very familiar with Cornwall and spent pretty much every school holiday in Flushing, opposite Falmouth, staying with my grandparents, but this South East coastline of Cornwall has largely remained off my radar.

On our last day we decided to pop into Fowey for some breakfast before fishing on the other side of the estuary in Polruan. As it happened, we abandoned that idea and instead fished the most beautiful bay imaginable called Lantic Bay, a few miles East of Polruan.

Enough context setting – in short, I found myself back in Fowey, so here are some more doors from this recent fishing trip.

Basement door and thick walls, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018
Basement door and thick walls, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018

Basement door and thick walls, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018
Basement door and thick walls, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018

Boat builder's yard door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018
Boat builder’s yard door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018

Cottage door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018
Cottage door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018

Quay House door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018
Quay House door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018

Door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018
Door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018

Dangerous secret door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018
Dangerous secret door, Fowey, Cornwall, September 2018

Lantic Bay, a hidden jewel, Cornwall September 2018
Lantic Bay, a hidden jewel, Cornwall September 2018

And that’s it for this week.

by Scooj

More doors at: Thursday Doors – Norm 2.0

 

Bass fishing in Lantic Bay

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Standing sentry still

hook baited, rod presented;

hunter gatherer.

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by Scooj