More Orme exploration

Some time ago I had been doing some exploration on the Orme with Neil. But there is a lot more to see! So on a day the weather would turn bad at some point, and we didn't want to do a huge hike, we went again. He showed me the Rocking Stone, Elephant Cave, and Happy Valley, and we ended up on a beach I hadn't previously even realised existed. They even was a tunnel on it. And lots of nicely exposed fossils.

View over the promenade 

Elephant Cave

Handsome stairs in Happy Valley 

Fossils (corals and crinoids) on the beach

The beach

If you zoom in you see both adult and baby seals

We also looked at all geological formations we hadn't previously looked at. And on the way back, we had a look at one of the stations of the funicular tramway. I had not seen that! There are some big winches pulling these trams up, and letting them back down. I suppose the general system has become unpleasantly famous since it went horribly wrong in Portugal.

When it rained in the afternoon, we finished looking at a podcast which was basically a long interview with my old colleague Jan Smit, talking about the extinction of the dinosaurs, and everything associated with that. We had started that the evening before. It wasn't very spectacularly done, but I was glad that Neil was transfixed anyway!

We had a lovely time! And I'm sure that there is still an awful lot more to see on the Orme. I look forward to it already!