Usually we can walk from the concrete ramp at the end of Golspie's promenade straight out onto its south beach but today....
....vast amounts of its sand had been removed during yesterday's stormy weather. It's a reminder of the power of the sea, and that coastlines are but temporary, particularly in these days of rising sea level.
We met a lady walking her dog along one of the now sand-starved sections and she told us that, if we wanted to find the sand, it would be at Littleferry, removed there, presumably, by the effects of longshore drift under east-northeasterly winds.
Such sand as remained had been sculpted by the sea into patterns of undulations, whose valleys were being steadily filled by the rising tide, and across which....
....the breeze was washing frothy reminders of yesterday's fury.
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