Storm Gerrit Aftermath

Yesterday was one of those days when daylight never really happened. All day a low, heavy murk was chased across us by a vicious easterly wind which gusted well over gale force, bringing frequent hard showers. Storm Gerrit finally cleared during the night leaving a legacy of tattered clouds and line after line of breakers marching in to shore to....

....hurl themselves at the newly-rebuilt sea defences which run below Dunrobin Castle, cutting the coast path in several places.

We still  haven't discovered what it is that spurs the gulls into almost suicidal attempts to land on the water to feed, risking being caught and tumbled by the breakers. We think it may be the eggs of one of the fly species which plague the beaches in summer which are washed out of the rotting seaweed by the waves. Whatever it is, judging by their numbers and efforts, it's a gull's delicacy.