{ Plymouth’s Waterfront Walkway - Drake Island } Winter - Low Tide . . From the latter part of the 16th century the island was occasionally referred to as Drake's Island after Sir Francis Drake, the English privateer who used Plymouth as his home port. Even well into the 19th century, maps and other references continued to refer to the island as St Nicholas's Island and it is only in about the last 100 years that this name has slipped into disuse and the name Drake's Island has been adopted. . . It was from here that Drake sailed in 1577, to return in 1580 having circumnavigated the world, and in 1583 Drake was made governor of the island. (https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/WaterfrontWalkway.pdf) . . . . . #plymouth #plymouthUK #admiralhard #devilspoint #devilspointpark #plymouthswaterfrontwalkaway #southwestcoastpath #nature #naturephotography #winter #cloud #sky #theAzVenture #fujifilm #fujifilmxt20 #history #historyfacts #visitplymouth #culturetrip @culturetrip (at Drake's Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8bCuXAIsC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4el7s4uhmy5k