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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2016-07-03 09:59 am

Beachy Head

I was standing on Beachy Head yesterday, looking out to sea with the sun in my eyes.  It was like looking into another dimension.

I can understand why people take one more step. I could feel the pull.









[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, it is so beautiful there.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
I walked away in a state of dazzlement.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
It's a spot love.

I've walked that coastal footpath so many times! :o)

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's so overwhelmingly beautiful. I'd say "sublime" only that's become a joke word.

[identity profile] internet-sampo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
First photo: It _was_ like looking into another dimension. I couldn't understand what I was looking at for a second or so.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
As much as anything it's the cloud shadows on the water. The brain doesn't immediately know how to interpret them.

[identity profile] artkouros.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know - looks like more of a painful rocky tumble than a comfortable fall into oblivion.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well people do it a lot. I think some parts of the cliff are very sheer.

[identity profile] puddleshark.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Amazing pictures. I hadn't realised how stunningly beautiful that coast is on a clear day.

I especially love that last photo with the tiny, tiny lighthouse far below. You're a lot braver than I am. Our cliffs are half the height of those and I still couldn't bring myself to go anywhere near that close to the edge.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

I'm not sure I'd ever been to the top of Beachy Head before. If I ever did it couldn't have been on such luminous day or I'd surely have remembered.

[identity profile] arielstarshadow.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful! Looks like you had perfect weather, too!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, we did- in spite of the forecasters.

[identity profile] kishenehn.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That's all pretty wonderful! Such an evocative spot ...

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Amazing. I wasn't prepared for just how beautiful it would be.

[identity profile] ideealisme.livejournal.com 2016-07-03 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I featured it in my novel and then later went to visit it. I walked all the way up the hill from Eastbourne and decided I'd made a geographical booboo forcing the poor characters to travel that far :)

[identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com 2016-07-04 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
That's gloriously beautiful!

[identity profile] w. lotus (from livejournal.com) 2016-07-08 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That is beautiful!!!!