Bay, Isle of Wight

Very Nice! I was there in 1971. It is quite different now, I think.

Nice job here Robert, no chair lift when I used to visit regularly. I think it’s where there are seven different sand or rock colours - used to be for sale in test tubes etc, can you believe…could have that wrong of course!

Welcome to 2024 with a lovely fresh painting and an interesting story

Nicely done Robert a lovely place well it was when I last visited no horrific chairlift then fortunately.

Lovely freshness Robert and I do like the treatment of the sea.

Nice first one Robert. Like how the small little path leads the eye gently in to the scene and the headland colours and tones take over from this. Altogether a great start...

Thank 'ee all kindly. Yes, this is where the coloured sands are supposed to come from - and some of them do. But a lot of the stuff you used to be able to buy, in the shape of plastic lighthouses and occasionally penguins, of all things, didn't come from Alum Bay at all; it was imported from Spain. I know that, because once upon a time I sold it, in an emporium in Yarmouth - not a place of happy memory. There are many aspects of the tourist industry that we'd be a lot better off without: given a choice, don't base a local economy on it.

A lovely landscape of the area. The Isle of Wight is such a beautiful place.

Great start to the year Robert and a lovey sweeping bay.