We drove to Littleferry this morning to enjoy the beach at low tide and because it was a beautiful morning, of the sort that have been too rare this summer. It does seem that this east coast has a dull, cool summer and reserves its sun for May and September - sun gloriously warm when it does show its face, even though we are so far north.
Three seals lurked in the strong outgoing current at the mouth of Loch Fleet perhaps hoping for a run of salmon, this current also seeming to wash all the sea birds out to sea, so we saw....
....on the exposed sandbanks eiders, cormorants, mergansers, several gull species, terns, oystercatchers and, when we set off to walk....
....along the miles of empty low-tide sands stretching away towards Golspie...
....the first sanderling of the year, just four of them, which allowed us to approach to within ten metres.
It does make one wonder where they've been for their summer holidays that they have so forgotten their fear of humans.
Among the shells and sea potato tests we found one reminder of 'high summer' - a lion's mane jellyfish with its tentacles neatly arranged beside it on the sand.
We drove to Littleferry this morning to enjoy the beach at low tide and because it was a beautiful morning, of the sort that have been too rare this summer. It does seem that this east coast has a dull, cool summer and reserves its sun for May and September - sun gloriously warm when it does show its face, even though we are so far north.
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