It's high summer - albeit a rather chilly one - with the schools closed and people able to travel to holiday destinations, yet Golspie's beach remains stubbornly empty. This is a view looking southeast along it, taken just after midday, with three people visible along its length.
While for us it's a beach which tends to lack excitement - though there have been marked exceptions - it's a lovely beach for children, with miles of sand, very little indeed in the way of litter, and.... no crowds.
We asked a local whether this emptiness was normal, and he assured us it was: Golspie isn't much of a tourist destination except during the annual gala week.
We usually find something to catch our interest, and this was it, the clear tracks of a bird, from its feet about the size of a small crow, but its footmarks step into a drag mark, so something is projecting down from the front of the bird that's scraping along the sand as it walks....
....perhaps more clearly seen in this picture. These tracks ran for a hundred metres or so along the beach just above the high-tide line.
We tend to walk back along the path along the top of the sea defences, a path which sometime runs along the edge of the carefully-mown golf course and sometime through wild meadow. At one point we found some six-spot burnets, the second colony around Golspie, all looking in rather better shape than the Littleferry ones.
We also saw plenty of butterflies including some beautiful tortoiseshells and meadow browns and....
....a couple of female common blues, again hugely outnumbered by the males.
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