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Margaret Grundy Brill photos Jim. You do just feel you are there.

Mavis and Gerald We also enjoyed a recent visit to Morecambe, excellent film show Jim

Jim Thank you friends, So glad you enjoy the photos. Jim

Jacqui P.O. Glorious photo's of a stunning vista.The tourist board have missed a trick,should snap( geddit?) you up forthwith!

Chris n Norman Well Jim - you've done it again! What a treat to see a revamped Morecambe. Norman and some friends did the walk last month. Finished weary, but happy to have supported Wigan Hospice. Thanks again. Keep up the good work. x

Jim This huge profile wall on Morecambe's promenade replicates the mountains of the Lake District seen across the bay..

dawn stunning veiws ,made you feel like you where there! heavenly !

Jim Walkers crossing the sands.

Bill . F Your usual dedication to an informative and very pleasing display

Jim In the early nineties I did the walk with my rambling club and about 200 other people.

Jim We waded through two rivers up to our knees - and right in the middle of the bay..

Jim ..was caught in a torrential downpour - in seconds we were like a bunch of drowned rats- who had been through a car wash, Oh! happy days.

Jim All the photos were taken with my very basic mobile phone camera.

Jim As I took these shots a couple waked past, and I heard the guy say "He'll get no photos with that now"

Jim Well what do you think?

Jim I think - just take lots of photos and you are bound to get something worthwhile.

Jim I have another Morecambe show here on PhotoPeach and the art deco interior of its renovated Midland Hotel.

Jim It is said the incoming tide comes in faster than a horse can gallop.

Jim Now the sun starts to set.

Jim Day's end - the mountains of the Lake District are seen across the bay - Bill Bryson, the American travel writer was spot on when he rated Morecambe for its glorious location.

Jim ..each peak is named on the wall.

Jim Morecambe Bay is a huge 120 square mile expanse of shifting sands..

Jim ..so dangerous to cross, and so many lives being lost to its shifting quicksands, that in 1536 a Queen's Guide was appointed to lead travellers across - the present one is Cedric Robinson..

Jim ....who lives in the Guide's allocated cottage at Kent's Bank, and who takes hundreds of walkers across the sands in groups on the appointed crossing days...

Jim ..during the summer months - he first finds the safest route and marks it by pushing laurel branches, called brods, into the sand, walking across the sands from Kent's Bank to meet the walkers.

Jim The walk is some seven miles from Arnside to Kent's Bank and takes about three hours, crossing a couple of the five rivers that feed into the bay on the way, the walk is done in shorts and trainers.

Jim But here a couple just relax and take in the view as the sun starts to go down over the bay.

Jim Morecambe front, around the bend is the Hest Bank mudflats, where on the night of 5th Feb. 04 some 21 Chinese immigrant cockle pickers got trapped in the mud and were drowned by the incoming tide.

Jim On a lighter note this quirky house caught my eye.

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