A few more British Isles off Northumbria

There is a road to Lindisfarne that you can drive down but when the tide comes in it submerges cutting off the land as an Island. Most tourists go during the few hours of low tide and leave before they get cut off. We deliberately crossed onto the island at the first low tide of the day and waited for the next low tide. The Island emptied of people and we had it to ourselves. The picture above is an iconic one of Lindisfarne Castle, yet if you compare it to every one from this spot that you would find on the internet mine is better because it has sea in it!

This is the causeway at Low tide.

The island is also called Holy Island. I think I understood why. The whole place seemed to slightly tingle with nervous energy. Whispers unspoken but present on the wind and a strange feeling that if you stayed still long enough you would become part of the island.

Here the causeway at high tide cuts you off from the mainland.

This is St Cuthbert's Island just off the coast of Lindisfarne. The little hovel on it is supposed to be the hermitage of St Cuthbert. Like Lindisfarne itself this Island stops being an island at low tide, which is when most visitors are on the island. Therefore few people see the Island as a true Island.

This is Coquet Island off the Northumbrian Coast to the south of the Farne Islands. It is covered in the ruins of an old Benedictine priory and a more modern lighthouse. The island is a nationally significant bird reserve with over 18000 pairs of nesting Puffins (which I have never seen) and nearly 100 pairs of the endangered Roseate Tern (which I've also never seen!).