Skyway

The foxgloves are at their best today. Amazing how they come back each two years unasked (now it's the extra due to the Chinook below).

We've missed the thunderstorms coming up from France but boy is it humid. We could do with some rain.

As I was messing about with the photo I heard the distant whop whop of an approaching Chinook. I rushed to the front door fiddling with controls and light meter to catch the beast in the five second window between the trees over the cliff. Result. It's an RAF 27th Squadron Chinook with  special commemorative tail markings of a roaring elephant in celebration of their first plane - a Martynside Elephant.

Based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire they might have been on their way home. Note the airperson at the opening behind the cockpit and the pair of feet just visible out of the open cargo door.

On reflection I've changed the photos around.

And did you catch the mention of St Margarets Bay on the BBC Today news this morning? A party of young people caught out on the cliffs with their adult leaders.