by Peter van der Walt | Aug 24, 2022 | Photos
Drake’s Island was given to the privateer (read ‘pirate on our side’) Francis Drake. It guards the entrance to Plymouth Sound. From the woods around Mount Edgcombe, you can see different angles of the city, the sound, and Drake’s Island. The...
by Peter van der Walt | Feb 28, 2022 | Photos
Go outside the city centre and its mommy town – a place where husbands and wives raise offspring. I don’t like living in places where cars are compulsory, but I have to say that the ups and downs of the topography and the green carpet extending from hill...
by Peter van der Walt | Feb 7, 2022 | Photos
The branches are so intricate that together they create a visual distortion that I can stand and watch for hours. The trunks are clear, even sheathed with ivy. The leaves, too, distinct where they hang. But the tips of the dry branches seem to pierce through reality...
by Peter van der Walt | Jun 2, 2021 | Photos
Old trees – centuries old, if not more – with powerful, gnarled branches the likes of which I’ve never seen. We were cruising down the River Yealm and these beauties confronted me from the far bank. If someone showed me a photo of this lush landscape...
