Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: island

Flame-red Fuchsia grows everywhere in the west of Ireland. Looking north from Valentia Island the Blasket Islands and the Dingle Peninsula are on the horizon. A beautiful part of the world. HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

In the tropics it can be very hot and humid but when you dress for the weather it's not so bad especially in the rain... :-) Happy Wet Wall Wednesday to everyone!

When I first started working for Blue Circle Cement in 1970 one of my fellow geologists had just come back from an assignment in Langkawi Malaysia. I was impressed by his stories of this island paradise in the Strait of Malacca near the Thai border but never thought I would ever go there. Wind on 10 years & I was living in North Sumatra and discovered that a short flight from Medan to Penang followed by a shorter flight by light aircraft northward would take me to the small airport at Langkawi. It was well worth the trip and the unspoilt island was a delight. It remained a quiet backwater until 1986, when the Malaysian Prime Minister transformed it into a major tourist resort. A large international airport was built and the island rapidly grew as a tourist destination, and by 2012, it received over three million tourists a year.

Beautiful sunset light over Eivissa castle walls (Ibiza). In the season no doubt most people would be on the beach (or still sleeping off their clubbing!!) but we saw just a handful of people on the climb up and around the castle on this late November Wednesday afternoon/evening.

The view across Mounts Bay from Mousehole harbour - approx. 7km. The island of St Michael's Mount was gifted to the Benedictine order of Mont Saint-Michel by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century and it was a priory of that abbey until the dissolution of the alien houses as a side-effect of the war in France by Henry V.

On this beautiful autumn day St. Michael’s Mount across the bay was clearly visible and worth a telephoto shot from the sea front by Penzance station. St Michael's Mount is a tidal island in Mount's Bay and is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water.

The eastern end of Sao Miguel island as we were flying into Ponta Delgado from Lisbon. A beautiful green island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

We saw these Icelandic horses being herded near Armannsfell alongside Route 52 which is a well graded dirt road and approaches the Langjokull (Long Glacier) before turning west to Borganes.