At low tide, one can walk Golspie's South Beach from Golspie itself all the way to Littleferry, miles and miles of wonderful clean sand ideal for children to play on, but it now suffers from a serious handicap: the waves over the winter have destroyed the flood defences making it impossible to get down from the car parks to the beach. This damage extends all the way along as far as the kart track.
Unaware of this slight problem, we were looking for a good walk this morning but only managed to get down from the path that skirts the golf course by climbing across some of the boulders placed to slow the rate of erosion.
Once on it, we could stretch our legs along the sands. In the hour or so that we walked we met only one man and his dog. Sadly, though, the beach was also deserted of wildlife, for we only saw....
....a pair of ringed plovers, some crows and gulls....
....half-a-dozen oystercatchers...
....and what might have been four very distant mergansers.
On the A9 traffic signs at either end of the village, this beach - very deservedly - is described as "award winning" but it desperately needs money spending on the sea defences. At this rate, in a year's time the waves will have smashed through what's left of the existing ones.
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