Both of our sets of parents used to use the phrase 'stretching one's legs' to mean going for a walk but to us there's a more subtle meaning to it, exemplified in the contrasts between yesterday's walk, where we had to wear ice grips on our boots to teeter along the frozen tracks below Dunrobin Castle, and today's walk....
....when we drove to the caravan site half way between Golspie and Littleferry which gave us immediate access to miles of sand which literally enabled us to stretch our legs. Not that the beach didn't bear the scars of recent weather, from the strip of frozen sand at the top of the beach which the tides aren't reaching to....
....the sections of beach which have had their sand removed in the past weeks.
The view also kept reminding us of the recent weather. Ever since last Wednesday's snow we've had days which have been just sunny enough to melt some of the snow and ice, enough to provide a slick of water which has then frozen solid overnight to create sheets of lethal black ice.
We walked briskly for about three miles in all during which we didn't find much of great interest along the strandline except for these little gobbles of hard, transparent jelly most of which were concentrated along a couple of hundred metres of the beach and....
....seemed to come in clusters. We had no idea what they might be until....
....we came across a single much larger, rounded piece of the same jelly-like material - this is about 5cm across - which we thought was a crystal jellyfish. We've come across these exotic beasts before - see earlier blog post
here - but whether the small globules are some sort of young form of the jellyfish or, perhaps, broken pieces of adults, we don't know.
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