The view across the Bay

WE’RE DRIVING along Morecambe’s Marine Drive and the view across to the far shore takes our breaths away.

Across the vast expanse of the Bay, over the wet, gleaming sands and mudflats, the Lakeland fells stand out clear and pin sharp in the golden light of the late afternoon.

The higher peaks have already got the first winter snows on them.

There was a time when I never left home without a camera bag on the back seat, but not so in these, my post-photographic days; for once, though, I really wish I’d brought the camera with me.

It’s one of those rare days when the view is quite simply spectacular.

Makes me realise afresh how lucky we are to be living on the edge of Morecambe Bay.