What’s Your Preference?

billmac57 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-18-2009, 07:32 PM

This is Botallack Mine in Cornwall.

The shafts from this mine went out under the sea.

Taken from the coastal path as we were walking to the mine.

A close up of the flowers.

jack russell · #2 (**permalink**) 07-18-2009, 07:51 PM

Very nice Bill.. any chance you're down the coast a bit catching Watson show the boys how it"s done?

leonaashlee · #3 (**permalink**) 07-18-2009, 08:33 PM

Bill, I really like that first shot a lot...although all are really good...of course I love the purple too.

Fred flyfisher · #4 (**permalink**) 07-18-2009, 08:56 PM

Breathtaking is how I'd describe these Bill. Beautiful is another word I'd use. Love all 4. Nice going mate!

lindyannajones · #5 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 04:21 AM

Do these photos mean you are back from your vacation? I just knew you would bring back something beautiful! Look at that ocean. Sigh. I wish your photo came with sound effects and smells. In your first photo, I'm enjoying the spray of white flowers that spill down the hillside to join the white waves. RE: your purple flowers. I've long enjoyed the writing of George MacDonald. I think he has a description of these flowers in several of his books. I've always wanted to see them. I'll bet you can't really get the full sense of the way they carpet the meadows. Wait. This is heather, isn't it! I can hear Gene Kelly (literally). Lovely, lovely.

paulq · #6 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 04:57 AM

Bill, what a beautiful place you have shared with us! I love the POV of the first! thanks for sharing!

mpascal · #7 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 06:19 AM

Nice set of pictures, beautiful place.

Michael

Chewys Dad · #8 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 06:51 AM

Wonderful Captures Bill! The castle shots are beautiful as are the ones of the Heather! When I look at that Castle, I wonder how they moved those stones down the cliffs and what it was like to live/work there so close to the sea. It must have been awesome at night to hear the waves crashing and to look out on the sea during the day seeing the Sunsets/Sunrises (depending on which side of the Island it's on) Do you know what they were mining?
Thanks for Sharing these
Michael.

billmac57 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by jack russell

Very nice Bill.. any chance you're down the coast a bit catching Watson show the boys how it"s done?

Thanks Jack, will have to watch final round on the tv, it would be terrific if he won it.

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Originally Posted by leonaashlee

Bill, I really like that first shot a lot...although all are really good...of course I love the purple too.

Thank you so much.

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Originally Posted by Fred flyfisher

Breathtaking is how I'd describe these Bill. Beautiful is another word I'd use. Love all 4. Nice going mate!

Thanks Fred, appreciate it.

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Originally Posted by lindyannajones

Do these photos mean you are back from your vacation? I just knew you would bring back something beautiful! Look at that ocean. Sigh. I wish your photo came with sound effects and smells. In your first photo, I'm enjoying the spray of white flowers that spill down the hillside to join the white waves. RE: your purple flowers. I've long enjoyed the writing of George MacDonald. I think he has a description of these flowers in several of his books. I've always wanted to see them. I'll bet you can't really get the full sense of the way they carpet the meadows. Wait. This is heather, isn't it! I can hear Gene Kelly (literally). Lovely, lovely.

I`m back!, I think this is heather, of course these pictures were taken in Cornwall which is as far away as you can get from Scotland on the mainland.

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Originally Posted by paulq

Bill, what a beautiful place you have shared with us! I love the POV of the first! thanks for sharing!

Thank you, it was quite a place.

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Originally Posted by mpascal

Nice set of pictures, beautiful place.

Michael

Thank you Michael, it was a really sunny day which made it easier to take the pictures.

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Originally Posted by Chewys Dad

Wonderful Captures Bill! The castle shots are beautiful as are the ones of the Heather! When I look at that Castle, I wonder how they moved those stones down the cliffs and what it was like to live/work there so close to the sea. It must have been awesome at night to hear the waves crashing and to look out on the sea during the day seeing the Sunsets/Sunrises (depending on which side of the Island it's on) Do you know what they were mining?
Thanks for Sharing these
Michael.

What you can see are the engine houses, they housed the engines that pumped the water from the mines. They got a few different metals when mining, tin, copper even arsenic.