6th April 2012

As I am working on Saturday, we decided to go out on Friday instead. Though it was dry first thing, showers were forecast and it was grey and overcast - unlike the day before which had been nice and sunny.

Firstly we headed to Ballaglass to see if the bluebells were making an appearance and to see the beast in his spring attire

Though there were a few Bluebells, it will be a few weeks until we get the blue carpet in the glen. We did see some Primroses and Marsh Marigold

After leaving Ballaglass, we headed to Garwick. Whilst on the beach, we had our first few spots of rain

We had lunch at Garwick and took a few long exposure shots of the sea - I'd carried my tripod down there and was determined to use it.

We left Garwick and headed to Onchan harbour, we had walked past this a few times in the past but hadn't been down. By this time it was getting dark despite only being a little after 2pm so the pictures weren't very good. We left Onchan and started heading north, we called into Laxey, contemplating an ice-cream but, decided it was too cold and damp so headed home for coffee instead.