Wednesday 4 September 2013. Isle of Man. Port Erin, Calf Sound & Calf of Man.

This was posted from the ferry the Ben-My-Chree en route from Douglas, Isle of Man to Heysham UK across the Irish Sea.

On our third day on the Isle of Man we awoke to a very cloudy and windy morning.

After Roy had returned from his hour walk into town to fetch the papers, we headed off to a little place called Port Erin 32 klms south of here.

Port Erin is a lovely little village by the sea and has a railway station where the old steam trains leave for a trip to port Douglas. There is small Railway Museum there.

We spent some time looking around the town before settling down to have a coffee outside a small café on the beach front. Eagle eyed Lyn said she had seen a sharks fin a 100m off the beach so we all told her not to be ridiculous as we decided it was a Cormorant fishing.

After a short time what looked like a stationary black fin appeared so we all strained through binoculars to identify it. Two of us thought it was a seal’s head and the other two thought it was a fin.

After it appeared and disappeared a few times we asked the café owner to help and he got his binoculars out and declared it to be a seal but he did say that there were quite a few basking sharks around.

After Port Erin we drove down to the South Western most point of the Isle of Man to Calf Sound where there is a small island called Calf of Man. It was beautiful down there as by this time the sun had decided to come out and apart from the wind, it was a very nice day.

We spent quite some time there sitting on a bench watching seals on the Island which was only about 100 or so metres away.

After an hour or so we headed back to Port Erin to look around the railway museum and watch the steam train leave for Port Douglas before having dinner at a local restaurant and heading home.

Lane up to our cottage

 Happy shoppers

 Looking at the seals at the Calf of Man

Port Erin

 TT course start/finish line

 37.7 mile course