monday blues....NOT!!!

ok this is a really long post but there can be alot in 2miles of coastline...
i was up at 6am all hyper with being off for the week but had to have multiple brews of tea and the usual PC look through to kill time but was still out in the garage by 8am pinching tyres and lubing chains, by 9am i was back inside with the feet up watching morning TV dribble while munching on toast and more tea...,sod this i thought im off out! low tide was 11.50am so i spent an hour riding on pugsley through woods on route to seacliff beach to ride east round to peffersands, down on the beach at seacliff all was quiet...

with just a couple at the little harbour so i left the lovebirds to enjoy there empty beach and rode east round the point...
the next 2 miles to peffersands is a bit of a rockfest with trialy type riding...

the rock here is the same colour as the farm fields around whitekirk hill the highest point from here...,the fields are clay while this looks like sandstone how its eroded and rounded by the wind and sea..

along the beach a bit is an old chassis from what looks like an old lorry as its quite long...

along to this point there is certainly lots of interesting geology and rockpools...

to look at then the coast turns to predominately sand...

can you see me?...

heres some film up to now which,i hope shows the shoreline,not the usual beachride!...



passing the old WW2 machinegun pillbox which has slipped down the dune, amazing it hasnt broken up...

and peffersands opens up before you,nearly a mile of lovely beach.only a couple of folk were walking the sands...

a big dune here has completely disapeared here..washed away in the recent big storm...

peffersands beach was empty once i had ridden along...

this beach is hoaching on a sunday,intrestingly east lothian council do not premote this beach yet its car park is overflowed on sundays,
at the car park is a new information sign,again very informative...

if you click on the pics you should be able to read the information...



and heres a great quote from the man himself...numero uno in conservation,john muir...

near the car park is the old now unused tyninghame farm steading,now sold and proberly to be developed into housing so enjoy this photo of what was once a classic east lothian farm steading,getting a rarer site in original condition nowadays...

from the cabin at ravenscleugh which you can watch in part 2 of the filming i did...



i rode back along the beach...

and enjoyed having the beach again to myself...

i dont ask for much in life but days like this i can cherish forever...

an empty beach,calm conditions and a pugsley...

it was only 2pm so i didnt really want to go home yet...

so i rode back along the deserted beach again!!,hell why not,if it was a sunday it would be full of people,best enjoy the tranquility when you can...

some rides you wish could last forever..today was one,it was perfect...

but with a week of (all going to plan and weather)of riding i have to save the legs so headed for home...,a great day to remmember...

nothing like sitting at home in front of a roaring fire after a great days cycling,a hot bath,pasta and a cider...very peaced...