This weekend I was down at my Mums for a lovely relaxing break. On the Saturday we went on a super walk to St Ninians cave, by Whithorn.
The walk down to the beach where the cave is, is so enchanting. The path starts off in a bluebell wood, then finishes off on a gorgeous open beach, full of stones varying from small pebbles, to large boulders.
I could have spent ages beach combing collecting different shaped stones, with wonderful patterns and stripes running through them,
Along the way we kept finding interesting stones, so we tried to create Andy Goldsworthy inspired art on the beach!
We finally made it to the end of the beach where the cave stands. The rockface of the cave is engraved with many initials, names, quotes, dates and crosses. There is meant to be some original crosses carved by St Ninian himself. Whether this is one of his carvings, we'll never really know!?
Thank you for sharing your beautiful photographs with us. Gorgeous.
Posted by: A Thrifty Mrs | 05/19/2009 at 11:40 AM
that is a beautiful b&w photo of the beach - and especially with wee Jock? looking out to sea x
Posted by: caireen | 05/20/2009 at 08:48 PM
Great photos. love the cross carving and the history
Posted by: Thimbleina | 05/21/2009 at 04:55 PM
Love this post...I'm a sea and pebble addict, and love piling pebbles one on top of each other - or bringing the small ones home.
Posted by: Pebbledash | 05/22/2009 at 05:59 PM
Lovely photos! I am a huge Goldsworthy fan!
Posted by: suzanne | 05/23/2009 at 01:32 PM
Hi R, can you send me an alternative e-mail address, I keep getting 'delivery failure' returned.
Ta
Lynne
Posted by: My Baboo | 05/27/2009 at 02:09 PM