Sea and sky...and (this time ) sunset...

After Mondays beachride with no sunset due to a cloud bank out to the west i was rewarded thursday evening with a beautiful sunset...
done alot of cycling this week,commuting daily and Monday evening on the beach,Wednesdays nightride up on the Pentlands,it was back down to the coast straight after work Thursday as the weather was glorious...you have to get out and make the most of it, plenty dull wet days to come...but not tonight...
slung the Pug on the car rack and sped down to Aberlady to cycle out to set up a camera on the rocks at Craigielaw point off of Green Craigs,just above the retreating tide...then rode a loop to return to collect the camera 2 hours later...
havent filmed before at Gosford Bay..this is my home turf having grown up at Craigielaw, long before the big white houses and Golf Course were built in the late 1990s... leaving the coast i set up a multi timer pic of me riding up an old stone sea wall...



uh oh...not a low enough gear...



oh well... just take some scenery shots of Gosford Bay then...
see how the woods are burnt by the salt air and slope up away from the coast...

see the North Lodge-entrance to Gosford House...have always wanted to live there...the lodge that is, straight onto the coast...

down to Aberlady alongside the A198 coast road in the woods to the coast,
the straight road here is known as `the mile`, it is a mile from the first kerb stone on the straight to 5 pillars east on the wall of Aberlady church gates.
I was told during WW2 Spitfire and Hurricane pilots from RAF Drem would fly above the road to the church steeple on timed speed runs,like to have seen that...
riding down Coffin Lane beside the graveyard you can still smell Gas from the ash layed on the path here and in the Graveyard paths years ago brought from the now long gone Gas Works south of Aberlady beside the long closed Railway Station,
heres some helmet cam of the trail,part of the John Muir Way...



Down to the coast again at Kilspindie and it was turning into a stunning evening...


between the Golf course and the sea wall and rock cliffs there`s a grassy path runs along past the red pantiled shed-now a bird watching hide where someone has made a wee (coast) garden...

the rocky coast below bathed in low sun...theres suppossed to have been smugglers tunnels running below here deep underground but no one has dug to found the entrances (yet)...

Garlick rock on the shoreline...

it is mentioned in friend and other Scottish pugsley owner Gary`s great website Ancient Stones
it was going to be a lovely sunset...

seals were lying out on the sand above the emptying Peffer Burn...

waiting for sunset a pic of the star of the show...

here at shell bay where we spent summer days as kids on the beach is Green Craig- a small island,once the tide is behind the small grassy outcrop of rock it retreats very quickly and exposes a small cluster of rocks known as `crab isle`...
there was a frenzy of gulls feeding on trapped fish between sandbanks which were now quickly being exposed...

did a bit beachcombing amongst the rocky shoreline...

and found this wheel-about a 16" tyre,i have no idea what its off...

sometimes you just have to sit down and soak it up...
view across to Edinburgh Castle on the skyline east of the hump which is Arthurs Seat Hill and to its left the Pentland Hills where i was riding around in the dark last night...what a contrast to tonights ride...


within 15 or so minutes the tide was right out around the Crab Isle...


rode out for some pics...



love this bike...and where it takes me...

except a few golfers on the back holes behind i saw no one along the coast...
had the place to myself...
My photos as always have not been photo shopped...The Sky really is this colour here in East Lothian.
With just the camera to go collect there was plenty time to soak up the sunset...what a great couple of hours on the coast...

collecting the camera which made a wee timelapse film...



then i went for a paddle on the pugsley...you can ride out about a mile into the sea here and its only a few inches deep...water was flat and reflective and surreal...geese came in overhead...i love it...


hope this films shows the lovely light of East Lothians coast and sky...enjoy...