Shine on you Lizard light.

 Looking back over Kynance Cove towards Land's End.......

with a big swell filing the cove.......

 and heavy evening skies make for a bracing post-Christmas walk.......

 round the UK's most southerly point past the old Lizard Lifeboat house........

 and under the huge foghorns at the........

 Lizard Lighthouse complex which stands some 70 metres above the sea.......

where the light, established in 1625, can be seen 26 miles out to sea - in the right conditions making the crossing from Newlyn to Douarnenez the loom from the Lizard and similarly powerful light on Ushant can be seen at the same time nearly 100 miles apart. Amazingly, one of the world's most powerful lighthouses only uses a 400W bulb.


If you are looking to book an unusual holiday in the coming year, why not check out the chance to take a voyage on the Trinity House vessel Patricia and see the world from a very different perspective.


There is a superb not-to-be-missed exhibition currently running at the centre called, 'Lighthouses: Life on the rocks'.