Golspie South Beach

This morning we walked from Golspie south along its 'prize-winning beach', accessible again to older citizens like ourselves now that a ramp has been built through sea defences severely damaged the winter before last. The tide was falling leaving a beach swept almost clean, the only flotsam along the tideline, other than weed, being three small moon jellyfish.

The bird life along the beach included a dozen or so oystercatchers busy probing the newly-exposed sand for their breakfast, and a ringed plover, while offshore....

....we saw a lone eider (above), a herring gull, and two gannets and a sandwich tern diving for fish.

There were as few humans along the beach. At the village end of the sands a mother and father were coming down to the beach with their young daughter and two dogs, we saw a young lady exercising her labrador, an older couple and, in the distance, a lone man.

We sat on one of the large rocks that form the main sea defences, enjoying a warm, light easterly breeze, and marvelled at how empty the beach was on a fine Saturday morning, particularly when the forecast for the rest of the weekend is for rain.