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Boats bright in late evening sunshine, moored off Paignton harbour and seen from The Eastern Esplanade.
©Derek Harper
Paignton seafront has many, many hotels.
©Richard Knights
Taken from Esplanade Road, looking towards Roundhams and the Harbour.
©Debbi Da'Silva-Dias
Paignton Pier taken at Dawn.
©Debbi Da'Silva-Dias
Esplanade Road looking towards the Apollo Cinema with the pier in the background.
©Debbi Da'Silva-Dias
Popular with small boats and yachts.
©Richard Knights
A popular bathing beach near the old harbour. The headland is part of Roundham Head.
©Richard Knights
From the pier looking along Paignton Sands towards the harbour
©Shaun Ferguson
Looking across the sands towards the harbour.
©Gerald England
Paignton Pier through the eye of a mooring ring on Paingnton Harbour,
©Gerald England
Approaching Paignton Harbour from the promenade.
©Gerald England
Looking along lines of ripples (see [[916490]]), past the white Apollo cinema complex, to the pier.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km<br/>The gentle hills of Paignton rise inland beyond the sea front
©Tom Jolliffe
Dist:0.1km<br/>After becoming fascinated by the subject while staying at Margate in 1901, Hertha Ayrton produced a paper in 1904 entitled "The Origin and Growth of Ripple-mark", which gives a persuasive argument for the creation of ripples from the oscillating motion of wavelets across the beach. http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/articles/ayrton/Ayrton_ripple/ripple.html "Later this led to study of vortices in fluids, including the Ayrton fan, a hand-operated device for deflecting waves of poison gases from the trenches of First World War." http://www.aps.org/programs/women/reports/gazette/upload/99s.pdf
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km<br/>Some activity on the northern arm of the harbour, while some people shelter out of the wind in the strong sunlight.
©Tom Jolliffe

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