Two of Anything: Sheep on the beach

By Sue / June 23, 2017 / coast, colour, mammals, nature, Photo Challenges / 27 comments

This doesn’t fit the brief as it’s not monochrome, but I wanted to post this image anyway and it has to be seen in colour:

On the beach, South Lewis

More Two of anything at Cee’s here.

Tags: beach, sheep, Two of Anything

27 comments

beetleypete

June 23, 2017 at 4:10 PM

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I don’t recall ever seeing sheep on a beach. I wonder what they were thinking?
Best wishes, Pete.
- Sue
  
  June 23, 2017 at 4:13 PM
  
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  It’s the only time I ever have!
Dina

June 23, 2017 at 5:15 PM

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Gorgeous!! 🙂 It could have been even more south, on South Harris, Lyskentyre! 🙂
We met many sheep on the various beaches in Scotland. Very friendly, very picturesque. And on a previous trip to Ireland I also met sheep everywhere, including almost any place you’d not expect to meet anyone. It was my first visit to Ireland, I think I returned with more 1000 shots of sheep and lambs. 🙂
- Sue
  
  June 24, 2017 at 9:37 AM
  
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  Thanks, Dina! I’ve just had to rescue you from Spam, I thought it was odd that I hadn’t received a reply from you… one day, I am going to look through my slides for the view of the bay, and scan it in..one day!
  - Dina
    
    June 24, 2017 at 1:24 PM
    
    I’m not sure what happened but i thought was rather annoying … I’m in Norway at the moment, using a local wifi. I visited many fellow bloggers, liked and commented on the posts. Because of my extensive travels, I sometimes can’t blog for days and when I have time, I have a lot to catch up with. WP obviously don’t like a blogger to be too active in one session. I know Adrian (Chillbrook) blogged about this topic; “when is enough enough?” After a certain amount of likes yes, it doesn’t work anymore. Yesterday, after a certain amount of comments, something funny happened. I wrote my comment here, posted it and it was swallowed by a big gap, like it went into orbit super fast. I didn’t get the response, “your comment awaits moderation” or “your comment has been posted”. Nothing! I thought it had been deleted or not accepted by WP because I had already written some 40 comments or so. And it was only comments by fellow bloggers that I follow for years, I did not include a link or anything that’s likely to send you to spam. I frequently fish fellow bloggers from spam too, so now I check it every day. Have you maybe experience something similar?
  - Sue
    
    June 24, 2017 at 1:57 PM
    
    Yes, I have noticed people sometimes get swallowed up by Spam…so I go off to the rescue!
sustainabilitea

June 23, 2017 at 6:05 PM

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I like it, Sue, and I think it would lose something in B&W (maybe the sheep.) 🙂

janet
- Sue
  
  June 23, 2017 at 6:08 PM
  
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  Yes, This image is not suited to monochrome!p
Heyjude

June 23, 2017 at 6:48 PM

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I have seen kangaroos on a beach, but not sheep. I would love to visit Lewis and the rest of the Outer Hebrides, but they are a loooong way from here!
- Sue
  
  June 23, 2017 at 6:55 PM
  
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  Yes, the Outer Hebrides are great! We had good weather quite a lot of the time, but sadly it was drizzly at Callanish, the one place I really wanted good light for…such is life. And I’m glad I went when I did, because I most certainly couldn’t do it now
Debbie Smyth

June 23, 2017 at 8:15 PM

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Oh what a rebel you are! But I see why you wanted to use it – lovely shot Sue. I saw cows on the beach in Corsica but sheep are new to me.
- Sue
  
  June 23, 2017 at 8:35 PM
  
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  I was determined to show that pale sand, that beautiful water!
restlessjo

June 23, 2017 at 8:31 PM

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Isn’t it a fabulous place? I’d love to get up that way too. And why shouldn’t sheep have a little more than green in their lives? 🙂 🙂
- Sue
  
  June 23, 2017 at 8:37 PM
  
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  I was most struck by that region, but don’t have loads of images because those were the days of film…..
Cee Neuner

June 24, 2017 at 2:57 AM

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Sue, your two little sheep are so adorable. Great find.
- Sue
  
  June 24, 2017 at 7:38 AM
  
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  Thank you, Cee….it was just such an unexpected sight!
  - Cee Neuner
    
    June 25, 2017 at 6:55 PM
    
    I would never have expected it. I have a seal on a beach…About the same distance. That was a nice treat.
morselsandscraps

June 24, 2017 at 7:38 AM

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Sheep on the beach? Emus, yes! Kangaroos yes! We keep our sheep in vast paddocks far from the sea. You saw – and you had your camera.

One of my dreaming destinations for next year en route to guess where?
- Sue
  
  June 24, 2017 at 7:56 AM
  
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  Scandinavia? Iceland?
  - morselsandscraps
    
    June 24, 2017 at 8:56 AM
    
    Oh come on! Warsaw of course!
  - Sue
    
    June 24, 2017 at 9:15 AM
    
    Just teasing! And I should love to meet you again in Warsaw….
  - morselsandscraps
    
    June 25, 2017 at 8:13 AM
    
    Me you too!
  - Sue
    
    June 25, 2017 at 8:23 AM
    
    Well, we shall make plans once you know what you are doing 😀
  - morselsandscraps
    
    June 25, 2017 at 8:29 AM
    
    Ummm. Can you guarantee that will happen?? I’m going away for a month on Thursday to catch up with Queensland family, and I’m spending tomorrow hobnobbing instead of packing: I’ll be camping; going on a two-day tour; driving for four days to get there; and heading into temperatures ranging from 10° to 23°. So far I’ve decided I need at least three suitcases, and I don’t know where I’ve stashed all my skivvies. Know what I’m doing? I don’t think so! But I will let you know about Warsaw. Probably the middle of next year.
  - Sue
    
    June 25, 2017 at 8:36 AM
    
    Have a great time in Queensland – sounds like a lot of driving… And as for Warsaw, yes- unless my health lets me down
Lucid Gypsy

June 25, 2017 at 7:23 AM

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Oh dear they’ve forgotten their bucket and spades!
- Sue
  
  June 25, 2017 at 8:17 AM
  
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  Haha! Goodness knows what they were doing on the beach in the first place!