Longstone lighthouse

Then the puffin spotting took a tern for the worse!

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May 25th 2010
Today we went on a boat trip to the Farne Islands. Decided to write a single blog entry about this as there are a lot of bird photos (they go onto a second page)! The Farne Islands are one of the reasons that I wanted to come to Northumberland. They are home to a wide variety of sea birds including 70,000 puffins! All the boat trips go from Seahouses and although there are 4 companies running t ... read more

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