Menai Staights

The strait is bridged in two places: the Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont Grog y Borth) carrying the A5, and Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Tubular Bridge. Originally the Britannia carried rail traffic in two wrought-iron rectangular box spans but after a disastrous fire in 1970, which left only the limestone pillars remaining, it was rebuilt as a steel box girder bridge, and now carries both rail and road traffic (A55). Between the two bridge crossings there is a small island in the middle of the strait, Ynys Gorad Goch, on which are built a house and outbuildings and around which are the significant remains of fish traps, no longer used.

Magnolia at Bodnant

The Magnolias at Bodnant where beautiful this week, the centre of the flowers are seldom seen because of the height of the trees but they are amazing inside.

Storm Gareth

Storm Gareth was the seventh storm of this winter to hit the UK, these two pictures where taken at high tide at Crosby and Perch Rock, New Brighton.

Moody Blues in the Lake District

A walk or rather a buggy trip down to Friars Cragg on Derwent Water.