Tin mines...

A special day’s photography today, around the Cornish tin mines near St Just (only a few minutes drive from Lands End). The engine houses at Botallack, perched halfway down the cliffs, are particularly photogenic. I got plenty of pix, and saw choughs, with their ragged-edged wings and signature red beaks wheeling acrobatically around the cliffs. The gorse was in flower - with pungent coconut scent - giving cover to stonechats, whinchats, wheatears, goldfinches and linnets. Buzzards were catching the thermals overhead. It’s the longest walk I’ve had since the last gout flare-up, and I’m pleasantly knackered…