Black & Blues.

First blue serves the finest tea - perhaps this tea company should create a fishermen's blend?......

 Mario's boys load their blue boxes of bait.....

 and will wonder what their night's fishing on Great White Blue sharks will make......

in the Star, things are just plain black.

Snapshots from 1928.

 From the top, the Harbour Master's office, Stevensons, Wren &Co and F Jary, down below the Collectors office, Peacocks of Lowestoft, Richards and BJ Ridge - but what is under the tin roof in the foreground?.......

 looking over the market with its (then) curved roof - 'no dogs allowed' written on the end of the market roof.....

 Margaret's father, Arthur Lewis Smith stands next to Mr Kelynack, Harbour Master of the time - looked a tough job then too - just like the current encumbent the man's hair has gone white!!.......

looking over the harbour......

Here are the words of Margaret Mackintosh who sent in these photos taken of her father in 1928 - if any readers think they can add any further information, that would be most welcome.

"My  father and his half-brother lived in East London. There was an 11 year age difference - my father (24 years old in 1928) took his young brother to Newlyn for a holiday. There they met the Harbour Master, Mr Kelynack.

Arthur Smith died last year, aged 94, and his widow tells me the following:
‘When Arthur and I visited Cornwall and specifically Newlyn, he talked about staying near there on holiday with Doug, and about the Kelynack family. There was something about a Kelynack having been killed in WW1 and his name had been missed off the war memorial originally and added at a later date.

The Kelynacks were, I believe, friends of Emma Hodson (nee Smith) - Douglas’s and Arthur’s aunt, their father’s sister. A/the daughter, Winnie  Kelynack, is in Lilian (Emma’s daughter) Hodson’s wedding photo (about 1924). Douglas, Arthur and their father are also in the wedding photograph.’
Hope this is of some interest. Are there still Kelynack’s in Newlyn?"

High cloud and a halo.

A huge display of Cirrostratus cloud and a halo greetd the evening sky over Penzance, whether the rian will follow only time will tell.

Chippy gets clamped!

 In so many hours......

 you can sea food and eat it - keeping Mario in the manner to which he has become accustomed.....

maybe free fish and chips for a month will sort this out?

Take off!

 Big black back illustrates the way bird's wings generate the lift needed at take off by bringing their wings forward.....

 in amongst the golden JDs for the Still Waters.......

 a night's work on the sardines for the Pride of Cornwall.....

 not too many Berlin registered yachts make it to Newlyn.......

 the Emma is still in the throws of a main engine swap out......

 keeping a close eye on the rising tide.......

fish on the move.

Eat sustainably sourced fish at Fifteen this Autumn and celebrate Newlyn's finest fresh fish fayre!

Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant at Newquay is celebrating the best in Cornish fish later this month with a celebratory fishy Autumn menu. Don't forget Fifteen are currently recruiting trainees for those youngsters who might want to be the next Keith Floyd or Nathan Outlaw - put the word about! The opportunties for young chefs in Cornwall grow year on year - as can be seen from this article by Jasper Gerad that appeared in the Daily Telegraph. Big changes in English eating habits since the 1970s saw emerging TV chefs starting with Keith Floyd and then Cornwall's own Rick Stein pave the way for a revolution in Cornish restaurant and hotel menus. Today's visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to places to eat the length and breadth of the county.

Anglian Princess hiding in the bushes!

Spotted at anchor in deep water off St Just in Roseland on the Roseland Peninsula.