Scavenger photo hunt – October

For some reason October, for me at least, seems to have gone by in a flash and I only remembered yesterday that I should have posted my photo hunt pics on Thursday. Unfortunately I’ve had to have a rethink on some of the ones I wanted to use as they were only taken recently and for some stupid reason my computer isn’t importing them from the camera, so I’ve had a bit of a mad scramble through the archives to sort out some alternatives. The topics for this month are – umbrella, wet, puddles, overflowing, splash, and my own choice, so here’s my hastily-put-together selection.

The first shot was taken in the foyer of Dock 10 at MediaCity when I went on the Coronation Street tour last year. The umbrella project was launched on June 28th 2018 as part of an initiative to raise awareness of ADHD and autism and though I couldn’t see the significance the open umbrellas certainly made a bright splash of colour on the foyer ceiling.

Umbrella – a ceiling at MediaCity, Salford

While on one of my regular Anglesey camping holidays a few years ago I went to Rhoscolyn beach on the west side of the island, a place I hadn’t, up to then, previously been to. The bay is a lovely place for water sports and I found these colourful kayaks pulled up on the wet sand.

Wet – kayaks on the wet sand at Rhoscolyn beach, Anglesey

The next shot was taken during a camping holiday three years ago at my favourite site in Norfolk. The first few days had been very warm and sunny but while I was shopping in town at the end of my first week the weather changed and heavy rain arrived, and when I got back to the camp site I had a totally unexpected and unwanted surprise. I’d left the tent sitting on ground that was so dry and hard that I’d had difficulty knocking the pegs in when I first set up camp but I returned to find it sitting in the middle of a huge puddle a couple of inches deep. Fortunately the tent was fully sealed with an integrated groundsheet and the water soon drained away once the rain stopped.

Puddles – my tent sitting in the middle of a huge puddle on a Norfolk camp site

About 50 yards along the street from my house is an unadopted back lane with a row of five garages set sideways on to the road, and one evening in March last year a main water pipe burst in front of the first garage, sending water overflowing down the back lane and into my street where it ran like a river past my house. A couple of United Utilities men turned up at midnight but they couldn’t do much with just a couple of torches and one spade between them so the needlessly overflowing water continued to run until the following day.

An overflowing burst water main

One place I often go to for a dog walk along the beach and a good meal in a nice cafe is St. Annes on the Fylde coast and when I went on one occasion last year I noticed quite a bit of work going on around the old model boating pond. This year I found that it’s been turned into a bright and attractive water play area, quite coincidentally called ‘Splash’, and a warm and sunny day in July saw it being well used by plenty of kids and the odd mum or two.

Splash – the new water play area at St. Annes

And finally, sticking with the water-based theme, a search of the archives provided the last shot which was taken way back in early September 2008 when my partner and I had taken our caravan for a few days at Bridge House Marina on the Lancaster canal near Garstang. Sitting in the awning one evening I looked out to see a lovely sunset over the canal beyond the site so I grabbed the camera, ran round to the marina and fired off a quick shot before the sun disappeared completely. It was, just literally, a ‘point-and-shoot’ job but it came out so well that I enlarged it, printed it out and framed it.

My own choice – sunset over the Lancaster canal

So there you have it, my quickly put together collection for this month. As usual I’m linking up with Kate’s blog and once I’ve had some sleep (it’s now 1.15am!) I’ll hop round to see what interesting photos others have included.