Mark H
@neonbubble@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Something from this day in 2019 when we'd docked in Genoa then taken a boat ride along the Ligurian coast to a few towns and villages along the way. The final one had been Portofino and that's it you can see on and beyond the cliff edges here. The church is Chiesa di San Giorgio and the castle is Castello Brown.

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A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.
A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.
A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.