The Collector

By Collector

Steep Holm from Weston beach

Late in the day, an emergency blip!
I would have loved more time, however this was blipped when running back to the car park in the rain with bags of shopping.

Info from their website :)
Steep Holm is a small privately owned island in the Bristol Channel. Lying about five miles (8 km) offshore from the seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset, it sits in the middle of a busy shipping channel, isolated by strong tidal currents and with a difficult landing place.
Despite and indeed because of its isolation, Steep Holm is a rewarding place to visit, with visitors welcome on scheduled trips. It is a nature reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest famed for its beautiful, May flowering, wild peony. And there is peace and quiet (when the gulls have finished rearing their young) with fantastic, 360 degree, panoramic views of the Bristol Channel and the Somerset and Welsh coastlines.
(History too!)
The Victorians fortified the island and their six gun batteries, complete with cannons, remain largely intact. The former Barracks has been restored as a Visitor and Education/Exhibition Centre. There are intriguing Second World War remains: searchlight posts, gun batteries and rocket launcher sites.

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