A walk on the Wild Side – Smuggler’s Cove.

I can't remember exactly how many smuggler's coves I've visited, but it's a lot - their appeal is irresistible. In the Caribbean they are perhaps at their most romantic; whilst in the Britain they're the sort of places you might expect to see on an episode of Poldark. Along England's south west coast, where men in tricorne hats once shot unreliably at one other with flintlock pistols, smuggler's coves are two a penny. My favourite cove is Lulworth in Dorset, it is amongst the most beautiful of any to be found in Britain and part of the Jurassic Coast World…

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My New Garden Pond – What Showed Up in the First Four Weeks: Dragonflies and Water Boatmen and the Best Way to Photograph Them.

During the summer dragonflies arrive to fly over our garden in numbers - they simply come to feed on insects - taking a break from the hassles that life throws at them when they are hanging around their breeding pond. I have counted as many as a dozen at any one time doing circuits and bumps, and none could truly be described as resident... But, as soon as our new pond was filled with water, a male instantly took to patrolling and hovering in front of me as I worked; the insistence that this was now his territory was encouraging. Later…