A Trip To South Shields

Last week I fancied a trip out to somewhere different, so I took the ferry to South Shields. I have not been there for years and I found the ferry trip rather fun and surprisingly cheap - when I was younger I used to think that because you had to take a boat South Shields was an island...
There is a lovely little park with a boating lake full of birds and a miniature steam train running the perimeter. It was a very dull day and rained most of the time (typical British weather!) but I did manage to take some photos on the ferry and some of the birds. For the swans I cropped the pictures and heightened the contrast - I think they look rather like angel wings.