Sunset at Dollar Cove - Photography Week 12

Dollar Cove (or  Jangye Ryn) is near Gunwalloe in Cornwall and is so called as there have been occasional finds of silver dollars from a 17th century ship wreck (1,2).

This was my third visit to the cove this year (no silver dollars found yet!). I timed this one to coincide with a good weather forecast and a high but retreating tide. To get the most from the conditions I have applied a more hyper-reality finish to the images in post-processing including boosts in clarity and split toned saturation.

These are some of the results:

(1) http://www.cornwall-beaches.co.uk/helston-lizard-falmouth/dollar-cove.htm

(2) http://www.iwalkcornwall.co.uk/walk/poldhu_cove_to_cury

Dollar Cove is named after the silver Spanish dollars that have occasionally been found from the wreck of a 18th century Spanish Galleon, which is now thought might have been a lost vessel known as the Rio Nova and not the San Salvador which was also wrecked nearby. The ship wrecked in Dollar Cove was carrying two and a half tons of the coins from Spain to the Bank of England for safe keeping during their war with France. In January 1787, she was driven ashore at Dollar Cove in a violent storm. The ship broke in two and spilled the coins into a gully in the bay. The silver dollars found so far are dated from 1765 to 1777.