We found quite a decent mobile crane today, not bad at all for the Isle of Wight, in the margins of a visit to the Red Cliffs of Yaverland. A Liebherr crane on hire from Island Cranes of reference 1, on a residential development at the northern end of the Sandown esplanade.
Red cliffs still there, on a day with some cloud, but which was still warm and a couple of hours on the beach was enough to be going on with. Plenty of crows and seagulls, but no raptors hanging over the edge of the cliffs, as they often have in the past. Lots of skylark noise, but I failed to pick one out. Maybe sunglasses didn't help.
Quite a lot of dogs charging up and down the beach - plenty of it at low tide - after balls. Some of them were really going at it and we wondered how on earth you could give them that sort of exercise in a big town.
Culver Down right, complete with the 1849 monument to the Earl of Yarborough, first commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Commissioned by this last. Visible from some parts of the beach.
[May 2016: dramatic cliff fall in Yaverland sparks emergency call out. See reference 2]
Not much to see now, seven years later.
Home to read in the NYT of unpleasantly hot times in Texas and Arizona, what they call a heat dome, well in excess of 100°F in the middle of the day. If you are getting on and have to go out, taking lots of water seems to be important.
But the Mesquite Grill of Cypress, near Houston, is still putting it out. Maybe for people who are not getting on.
References
Reference 1: http://www.islandcranehire.co.uk/.
Reference 2: https://onthewight.com/dramatic-cliff-fall-in-yaverland-sparks-emergency-call-out/.
Reference 3: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=yaverland. It seems that we have been going to Yaverland for well over a decade now. Since the days before telephones included proper cameras.
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