Isle of Dogs challenge - Day 13 - Island Gardens to Poppy's Beach

Poppy’s beach looking towards the Canary Wharf and Wood Wharf areas

Day 13 of my challenge was quite a short walk, although it took me quite a long time because I stopped to take so many photos. Starting at Island Gardens park, I walked eastwards and northwards along the river towards Poppy’s Beach. My featured photo today is looking over Poppy’s beach to the high rises of the Canary Wharf and Wood Wharf areas. Normally my blogs feature just one photo or a few but this short walk looks out on such a range of views and I was feeling so happy at getting out in the warmth again that I’m going to add quite a lot of photos.

So, today I’m going to take you with me on my ramble of a walk as I would in one of my videos.

Starting off in Island Gardens and looking to the west, is this view of the type of quirky architecture that’s common in the southern most part of the Isle of Dogs.

Quirky architecture in the south of the Isle of Dogs, London

From the riverside space of Island Gardens you can look onto standout views of Greenwich with the prominent masts of the Cutty Sark and the dome of the under Thames foot tunnel.

Looking across the river Thames to Greenwich riverside showing the masts of the Cutty Sark sailing ship and the dome of the under Thames foot tunnel.

Walking along a little further you can see the beautiful symmetry of the building of the Old Royal Naval College.

Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London

And the historic Trafalgar Tavern which is still (in normal, non coronavirus times anyway) a busy pub and restaurant with a large outdoor terrace right by the riverside. It’s not looking at it’s best at the moment due to some roof repairs.

Moving along, on the opposite side of the river we can now see the old Greenwich Power Station with its four very distinctive chimneys.

And one of the most distinctive buildings in this area of London which is probably the one that’s best known through the whole country and that’s the O2 dome and arena.

I really appreciated seeing the blossom on the trees so I took a couple of shots of that.

Next, I took quite a few shots of some tree surgeons and this is my favourite of those.

These stones were lying down at Poppy’s Beach and a local artist seems to have a new display regularly.

And I finished up with the sculpture Woman and Fish which I wrote about in my previous blog. If you haven’t yet seen that and read the surprising story of this piece you can find it here.

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Loren x