Brora, a small village just to the north of us, is a ten minute drive away along the A9, a place we only visit when we have to fill up with petrol - one of the few services which Golspie doesn't offer. It's at the mouth of the Brora river, with a small harbour, a Co-op and several touristy shops, two petrol stations - why couldn't Golspie have one of them? - and several hotels. It's a picturesque place whose main asset, as far as we are concerned, is its....
....beach, miles of stretch-your-legs sand running away to the north behind which rise dunes which, today, were being populated by the year's first skylarks, males staking out a territory before the females arrive. Any area of dunes in this part of the world is, of course, taken up with a golf course, and Brora is no exception.
Wildlife was scarce on the beach today, a few common gulls, groups of two or three oystercatchers, a crow or two, and....
....a small flock of waders, perhaps sandpipers, which were contentedly sunbathing on this rock until chased off it by one of the many dogs being exercised along the beach. In summer Brora beach is special as it boasts a colony of Arctic terns and, when we were last there, flocks of sanderlings and ringed plovers.
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