This morning we drove a couple of miles to the south of Golspie, parking near the kart track which is right on the beach, to find that, in the recent storms, the sea had come across the links, reaching a point some hundred metres or so back from the storm beach; and there was plenty of evidence of last night's high winds, with....
....a heavy sea still breaking on what is now an entirely shingle beach. Hopefully, when the sea has finished with them, the sands of our sandy beach will be returned to us.
The wildlife continues to suffer in these conditions. The first casualty we came across was a....
....fully-grown seal, cast up almost contemptuously at the top of the storm beach. Further back the remains of....
....a cormorant were tangled up in a mess of weed; even more sadly, we came across....
....a living cormorant, completely disorientated, wandering along the path. When we returned from our walk it was lying in the long grass and seemed very unlikely to survive.
Amongst other casualties, which included several divers, we found this unlikely one, a caterpillar which had drowned in the flood.
This morning we drove a couple of miles to the south of Golspie, parking near the kart track which is right on the beach, to find that, in the recent storms, the sea had come across the links, reaching a point some hundred metres or so back from the storm beach; and there was plenty of evidence of last night's high winds, with....
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