Julie Watson
@julieoniw
Writer on the Isle of Wight, UK. Published books and stories on travel and nature. Kayaker, cat companion, whale watcher. Fellow Emerita, Dept of Languages Cultures and Linguistics, University of Southampton.
Some impressively large beefsteak bracket #fungi in the grounds of #OsborneHouse #EnglishHeritage #IsleofWight this week.
Happy to provide testimonial for #ORCA as one of their #volunteer marine mammal surveyors on ferries bound for France and Spain. Published on Facebook last month. "Meet Julie, a travel writer whose experience as an ORCA volunteer inspired many of the short stories in her books…" #whalewatching
Just back from a trip to #Iceland bringing home lots of ideas for new #travel stories for the next collection of #traveltakeaways I'm #writing.
They're up again! One of the small pleasures of #island life. #beeorchids #isleofwight #orchids #botanical
Looking for a good summer read? Immerse yourself in #travel stories from a time when the world was a calmer place and #globetrotting was an adventure.
A #Swedish ship, the Gunilla, is docked in #Cowes today. Hailing from the Ockero archipelago near #Gothenburg. #Isleofwight
One of my favourite early flowering British #orchids, the green-winged orchid showing in good numbers in #Northwood cemetery today. #Cowes #Isleofwight #naturewriting
Reading at the #book launch. My highly commended entry in the #IsleofWight Biosphere Writing Competition: Where Words and Wildlife Meet. Anthology available here: www.nakedfigleafpress.com/wherewordswi... #Naturewriting #Biosphere
This foxy face caught on camera showing an interest in food put out for the hedgehog #foxoftheday #isleofwight #wildlife
#Booklaunch #IsleofWight Biosphere Writing Anthology 2025. On Saturday 28 March at 4:00 pm at Figarama: The Write Way. Venue: Calverts Hotel, Newport. #IOW #NakedFigleafPress
Ive just see my talk next Thursday pm on #Japan for #UfFT advertised in this week's #IWObserver #IsleofWight #events #Newport
The trees are up at #OsborneHouse @englishheritage.bsky.social #IsleofWight
Not a great picture I know, but the resident #kingfisher crowned my visit to #Newtown marshes #IsleofWight earlier this week. #birdlife #iow
#Travel stories with a difference - one of my new collection of short travel stories published in 'The Other Side of Hope': othersideofhope.com/the-promise-... Like it? First vol (Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales) available on Amazon. #booksky #travelwriting #writersandauthors
A moment of still reflection in the busy heart of #Lisbon - pondering the secrets of the #naturalworld #Portugal #TravelTakeaways #travel #writing
The exotic pink flowers of the Silk Floss (or Painiera) tree seen everywhere in the streets of #Lisbon in October. #Portugal #TravelTakeaways #writing
Ready for the rush! At the local author marketplace today @iowlf.bsky.social . Drop by for a chat about #travel.
The #NaoVictoria is berthed in #Cowes today. Replica of the sixteenth century ship that circumnavigated the world with Portuguese explorer #Magellan . #IsleofWight
It's time for the #fungi. Beautiful boletes springing up all over the grounds at #OsborneHouse #EnglishHeritage
A little shoal of fish going about their business in a creek. Each one just half a finger in length ! #isleofwight #Shalfleet #fish #nature #wildlife
Where am I? Giant squash, hops in flower... Clue: Look between the sunflowers... #eastcowes #isleofwight
Plant containers, garden furniture, birdboxe, squirrel feeders and much else besides. All very reasonably priced. Wood 'N' Things, The Phoenix Project, #Newport Industrial Estate, #IsleofWight www.phoenixprojectiow.org
A #beachcomb at lowtide beside the #Medina #IsleofWight revealed a summer visitor to the UK, the #Compass #jellyfish with striking red markings.
While I was sleeping ... one of my night visitors dropped by: #IsleofWight #wildlife
Positively glowing bright yellow specimen of Chicken-of-the-woods in St Mildred's Church graveyard #Whippingham #IsleofWight this afternoon #fungi
Coming out soon - special edition of The Figlet for #IsleofWight #biosphere #writing competition.