Welcome to Devon CAM.

Below you will find our most recent additions. You can browse our entire photograph collection by place and category. All of our images of Devon are available in larger versions with most being suitable for use as desktop wallpapers. This site is updated often so please check back soon for more quality photos of Devon.

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Cafe on the Beach Place: Beer Category: Beaches Size: - Large About: At Beer it is possible to eat sitting on the beach. There are several cafe offering food with a choice of seats. As it was a fairly hot day and we had the dog with us we took advantage of the al fresco dining and there was also water provided for the...... Photograph Added: 18th March 2010

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Looking out over Beer Beach Place: Beer Category: Beaches Size: - Large Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: By climbing up the steps overlooking the beach at Beer we could take photographs looking down onto the scene below. Lots of welcome seats are provided at this height and this view must have been enjoyed by a great many people over the years Photograph Added: 18th March 2010

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No Longer Going Around Place: Fremington Quay Category: Transportation Size: - Large About: The wreck at Fremington Quay looks like it will never take to sea again and so this propeller is doomed to stay in this position. We walked all the way around the wreck as it was low tide. Photograph Added: 18th March 2010

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Rusting Wreck Place: Fremington Quay Category: Transportation Size: - Large About: We took photographs of the wreck at Fremington Quay from all different angles and this one was a favourite as the angles and chains make for an interesting shot. Photograph Added: 18th March 2010

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Returning from the Surf Place: Croyde Category: Surfing Size: - Large About: The waves had been very good for surfing but by the early evening they had calmed down and this surfer obviously thought it was time to go and get his tea. Photograph Added: 18th March 2010

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Lifeguard Hut Place: Croyde Category: Places Size: - Large About: Croyde is a very popular beach with surfers and during the season the lifeguard is in attendance during the day. The dunes to the back of the beach make an excellent wind break and a nice soft place to sit. Photograph Added: 18th March 2010

About Devon.

Devon is the third largest county in England with nearly 7, 000 sq. kilometres of land. There is a wide diversity of things to see and do in this beautiful county. Devon boasts the two national Parks of Dartmoor and Exmoor both are excellent for bird watching, cycling, climbing, casual waking or more serious rambling to sightseeing.. Footpaths are marked to give a variety of walking options including the 'Two Moor way' a 100 mile route that links the National Parks. Dartmoor to the south is rich in natural and man made beauty, heather clad hills, granite tors, fast flowing rivers and ancient clapper bridges. Exmoor to the north is justifiably famous for its heather moorlands and beautiful rugged coastline.

Devon has hundreds of beaches ranging from coves and inlets to fishing harbours and all action seaside resorts like the English Riviera of Torquay, The Jurassic coast of East Devon and Dorset has now joined the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef and been granted World Heritage Site status.

Devon has many famous 'sons'. Sir Walter Raleigh was born near Yettington in 1552 and the Raleigh family pew can still be seen in Yettington parish church. Sir John Everett Millais picture 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' was painted on Budleigh Salterton's beach.

Henry Williamson the novelist returned to Devon after the First World War and resucued an orphaned otter cub that he named Tarka. This relationship was the basis for his famous novel 'Tarka the Otter'. Today the land between the River Torridge and Taw are known as 'Tarka country' and a 'Tarka Trail' opened by the Prince of Wales in May 1992 covers many of the villages covered in Williamson's book.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his book' The Hound of the Baskervilles' on the bleak moorland of Dartmoor. His inspiration for the story is said to have come from the stories related to him about the moors by his guide Harry Baskerville.

Dame Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890. Today the famous crime writer is celebrated with a special exhibition at Torre Abbey in the Agatha Christie Memorial room. Her typewriter and many items of personal memorabilia have been donated by her daughter.

The Pilgrim Fathers left to start a new life in the 'New World' of America from the Mayflower Steps at Plymouth and Francis Drake is remembered for famously finishing his game of bowls before setting sail on the Golden Hinde to beat the Spanish Armada

Devon is a unique county with its own special charm which brings visitors back year after year.