On the north coast of Cornwall not far from Land’s End is St Ives Bay. At its western side is the seaside resort of St Ives and on the east side is Godrevy Point. Godrevy is a Cornish word meaning little huts or little homesteads and Godrevy Farm is still situated there. Outside Gedrevy Point is a reef, the Stones, stretching out towards the town of St ives. Godrevy Island is really part of the same reef structure at its northeasterly end.
Due to the amount of shipping and the numerous wrecks on the reef, a lighthouse was erected on Godrevy Island in 1859. The lighthouse was built of 3 foot thick walls and stand 26 metres high. Three keepers lived on the island in a cottage attached to the lighthouse. But now the lighthouse is of course automated and the lighthouse keepers have long since disappeared. Now the light is solar powered (since 1995) and in 2012 the light was moved from the white lighthouse tower to a separate steel structure on an adjacent rock.
I visited together with a few photography friends one early morning in November to capture the rocks at Godrevy Point and the Lighthouse.. We came to catch the first sunrays hitting the lighthouse, but actually I prefer the image I shot before sunrise. You can compare the two images on this post. They evoke quite different feelings although they are only an hour apart. In between those images we had a possibility to walk around and spotted a couple of seals playing between the rock ledges.
