Monday 20 June 2011

Isle of Wight holiday - Day 3

Alum Bay landing stage with The Needles and lighthouse in the background

The Needles lighthouse

Chair-lift returning up the cliff face at Alum Bay
A short distance away from our holiday accommodation is Alum Bay from where a chair-lift ride takes the visitor down to the shingle beach. From here I took a small boat out into coastal waters on a short trip to The Needles chalk outcrops and the famous lighthouse, these days unmanned and automatically controlled from the shore. The remains of the old and new gun-battery emplacements are located on the cliff-tops. 

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