06.16.08
End of Day One
While dinner is still being cooked, I think I can finish up my day one on the Isle of Man. Funny to think that it has taken me several days to put up only some of the pictures that only took us one day to take. One thing I’d like to mention is that Isle of Man enjoys longer daylight than we do here in Los Angeles, so it felt like we had more time to run around and see the sights before it got dark. I remember my friend telling me that he was just in from golfing and it was around 10PM. I asked how can you see the ball in the dark? Apparently, it’s not always dark until 10PM there. On our first day on the island it felt like morning time all day long to me. I think it’s because the sun doesn’t raise so high in the sky there, so they don’t seem to get that blistering heat we get here at times. Plus since the Isle of Man actually shares the same latitude as Alaska, at certain times of the year it can still be light out around 10PM. (I’ve never been to Alaska, but that’s what I hear and read about it). While we were there, it got dark about 9:30PM, which made me feel that it was just about 7:30PM because that’s about the time it gets dark around here at this time of year.
After visiting Glen Maye, Brian and I headed out to Castletown to meet up with our friends for dinner. They have a beautiful dog that is so friendly! He was so affectionate, I miss him especially when I see pictures of him. Here’s one on that night we visited for dinner (perhaps I should say, “supper” since dinner can also mean lunch there).
We met for dinner (supper) just after 7PM and ate at a restaurant called the Viking. Don’t know why I missed taking pictures there. I guess I must have been distracted with conversation. Afterwards we headed out to Langness to see the area. Here’s a picture of Brian and me at Langness near the lighthouse. Our friends were kind enough to let us borrow their jackets as it was getting pretty chilly there that evening.
See how it’s still light out? And this was after dinner (supper), so must have been around 9PM or so. Oh, and that reminds me, here in LA, we can watch the sunset go down in a matter of seconds. That is what I’ve been used to for most of my life. There on the Isle of Man it took a long time for the sun to set. It was interesting to me how sunset seemed almost frozen in time for about an hour or so, ha! For instance a view like the one below, which we took on Langness, would last an hour or so on the Isle of Man, but only a few seconds here in Los Angeles because once the sun hits the horizon, it would just go down so fast. It’s stuff like this that really helps to remind me that I was somewhere else, but yet also the kind of thing that makes travel fun.
After exploring that portion of the island, we headed back to Port St. Mary. That was the end of our first day touring the Isle of Man. We went to bed with plans to hit Cregneash after breakfast in the morning. Ah yessir.
Marlakins 
