A wet day today with some sharp showers pushed along by a brisk southwesterly wind. Such weather doesn't put us off a good walk but we had too much to do indoors, including finishing the last of the changes of address at the multiple organisations and businesses which hold data about us. So we took a quick walk along Golspie's front, no great hardship as there's always plenty to see.
The front runs from its northeast end at the point where the Golspie Burn meets the sea along to....
....the harbour arm at the southwest end. There's a beach along most of it, some of it sandy, and surprisingly large amounts of wildlife to be seen, including....
....a lonely red-breasted merganser in the burn....
....five disconsolate grey herons hunched in a field and....
....a group of a dozen or so redshanks running up and down with the waves near the harbour.
The view straight out to sea from Golspie is across the Moray Firth to Tarbat Ness and across it to the coastline which runs east from Inverness to places such as Lossiemouth and Fraserburgh. Standing, looking out across this grey and cheerless sea, reminded me of our first distant sight of the New World when the our ship approached Newfoundland on just such a day.
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