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Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, April 3, 2015: A brisk day on Portland Bill

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 The tip of the isle of Portland in Dorset, England, is called 'Portland Bill' and it is a place that I often visit as it displays dramatic visual day-by-day changes as the weather fronts surge in from the Atlantic. It is a place where no less than 6 conflicting currents meet and produce turbulent seas and mountainous waves. Navigational charts of the area just say 'extreme danger - keep away'!!

 

Here we can see the famous Portland Bill lighthouse as waves hit the rocks close by the old crane used for loading the famous Portland stone - used for building the English Houses of Parliament and St. Paul's Cathedral.

 

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Thank you very much my fellow Travel Gumbo-ites! I'm very pleased that you like the shots. Hopefully a few more to come. Regards to you all.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."  Henry Miller

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