Point of Ayr Lighthouse

[Darren Turner]

Talacre is a village in Flintshire on the North Wales coast, It is near Point of Ayr on the west side of the River Dee estuary and has a sandy beach with dunes. The hills of the Lydian behind the village form the eastern boundary of the Vale of Clwyd. The name Talacre is a combination of the Welsh words tal, meaning end, and acrau, meaning acres. In the north-east Welsh dialect, acrau is pronounced as acre.

The village is probably most popular for the lighthouse on the nearby beach and the Talacre Beach. The lighthouse has been noted for numerous ghostly sightings, people claiming to see a figure wearing old fashioned lighthouse keeper clothes and standing in front of the glass dome of the abandoned lighthouse

 

[Pete Askew]

Very atmospheric Darren. At first I found the slight curvature a little disturbing but I OK with it now. A very nice shot and PP.

 

[Ralph Thornton]

I like the image. I'd straighten the horizon and the lighthouse but that's me. Great colors on the beach.

 

[Bryan Hunt]

great image vey atmospheric love the cloudy sky

 

[Hamish Gill]

Nice dramatic sky!
I reckon the foreground needs a rock or a bit of drift wood though ...

Would be more odd if people saw a ghostly figure of a man dressed as an astronaught ... Ha!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Wow, what a stunning location