It's some time since I last walked along Golspie's seafront. This runs round a wide bay, with the village, and the A9 trunk road which passes through it, squeezed between the sea and the heights of Beinn Bhraggie. The northern end of the front is accessed by a grassy path while....
....the village frontage is a concrete breakwater. This is in a parlous state, with the sea frequently overtopping it - which must have happened again in the last few days judging by the piles of weed thrown up by the recent high winds.
It's a pleasant walk along the promenade and the grass path from the village to the mouth of the Golspie Burn. Considering this is a settlement of some 2,500 residents it never ceases to surprise me how few people I meet, today just one, a lady walking - or, rather, being dragged along by - her rather plump terrier.
The tide was low, the exposed seaweed-covered boulders being a gathering place for various birds including three species of gull, oystercatchers and crows. The bird swimming just offshore in this picture is a lone male eider.
One of gulls, perhaps a black-backed gull, lay washed up on the beach. Happily, there's still no sign of bird flu here so I assume this is a victim of a long winter.
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