on being camp

.....we went away in our new (16 year old) VW campervan this weekend - with the benefit of hindsight travelling 4+ hours each way to get to the east coast was a mistake - I'm not well enough to tolerate over 8 hours on the road in 36 hours. It was great to see the sea however, and despite it's tacky image Skegness was fine in an "English seaside town" sort of way. The campervan was pretty snuggy, especially under a new three foot thick quilt - although getting up in the middle of the night for a pee and finding it was only 2.5 degrees above freezing was challenging.

Sunday morning - and the beach and sea were wonderful, with good sized breakers, sunshine and a smattering of friendly strollers - although there wasn't a sign of the seals which we had travelled all this way to see. Normally during November seals arrive on Linconshire beaches to give birth, and then mate - but not on Sunday 12th November - another sign of global warming perhaps?

One particularly positive thing was that I took a goodly number of pictures. I haven't had much photographic motivation recently, despite having had a lovely new Nikon D80 for my birthday.

The pictures that Pen and I took will be appearing on our shutterchance photoblog over the next week or two...

BTW - it was great to see John and Bernie's photoblogs appear recently on shutterchance - we didn't even know they were into photography........