Looking over to Drakes Island

The first recorded name for the island was in 1135, when it was referred to as St Michael's, after the chapel erected on it. At some later date the chapel was rededicated to St Nicholas and the island adopted the same name. From the latter part of the 16th century the island was occasionally referred to as Drake's Island after Sir Francis Drake, the English privateer who used Plymouth as his home port. Even well into the 19th century.

The Folly at mount Edgecombe

1747 - an artificial ruin which replaced a navigation obelisk. Built from Medieval stone from the churches of St. George and St. Lawrence, Stonehouse.

Mount Edgecombe

Ilfracombe (Or Ilfrackom-be to the initiated).

Ilfracombe has been settled since the Iron Age, when the Dumnonii Celts established a hill fort on the dominant hill,Hillsborough (formerly Hele's Barrow)

Brixham Trawler Racing.

Skippers dress the boats with bunting and battle it out on a two-lap course around Tor Bay. Look here.

Bodinnick in the Spring, Kernow.

Did you know: Daphne du Maurier wrote many novels while living at "Ferryside" (a house that is stated to be still owned by her family) on the river bank at Bodinnick on the eastern shore.

Retired lifeboats at Watermouth, North Devon.

Operating for nearly 140 years, Stromness lifeboat is situated at the north end of Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands. Even lifeboats retire to Devon.

Hele bay, Ilfracombe.

Mesolithic tree? Perhaps, it looks old....but that old?

Westward Ho!

Did you know that Westward Ho! in Devon is the only town in Britain named after a novel? It is also the only place-name in the country (and one of only two in the world) that uses an exclamation mark.

Smeaton's Tower, Plymouth.

Smeaton's Tower is the third and most notable Eddystone lighthouse. Did the keeper of the Eddystone Light really have children with a mermaid?

Gyllyngvase, Falmouth.

It was an essentially rural area as recently as the late 19th century. However, the growth of tourism in the town at around the turn of the 20th century saw the area become more built-up and the seafront on Cliff Road became home to several major hotels. Nice fence though.

Topshells near Falmouth, Cornwall.

Technically they're an indicator of climate change, but they're pretty.