Saturday Sun, Sand, Dunes, Waves...

Saturday was another cracking day to be on the coast.
Glorious sunshine and a big swell producing some big waves...
I met Davie at Tyninghame to go for a beach ride. The local woods and trails are now saturated with all the rain from the previous evening so i cycled along by road.
As always here once along the sandy coastline and woods you wouldn't know there had been a lot of rain.
We rode around to the River Tyne where it enters Hedderwick sands at Links Woods...


Across the Tyne on the shoreline at Mosshouse Point was this retired man i have met before who is often walking the coast here and bags up rubbish.He should be publicly acknowledged for his good efforts...The Rangers used to do this once and the coasts were a lot cleaner...


Riding along the shoreline at Heckies Hole we followed the High tide line around through the reed marshes that were very wet but ok for tyre grip and Davie remarked he never believed soft terrain would be ride able before getting a pugsley,also our tracks left less marks than the sunken foot prints of walkers, should of filmed this to show people but always a next time.onto Sandy Hirst to ride around the point.low tide wasn't for over 2 1/2 hours...


Around the point we stopped and went and searched for a WW2 machine gun pillbox that i haven't been able to find for a while since i found out about it...


Here is a picture of it someone took in 2007 that is on Flickr...


Sea Buckthorn must be hiding it as we didn't find it.back along the coast towards Tyne Sands...


Along the secret trail above the coastline and here at a ruin wall i bypassed last year i turned over a rock...


And found this cross carved on the underside...wonder who carved this and how long ago?...


So far we had been accompanied by the roar of the sea and out around St Baldreds Cradle was indeed some big waves rolling in...




Some film of the big swell...


Along the nice wee bit of sandy singletrack above the coast and we dropped down onto the beach at Bathan`s Strand and rode up Ravensheugh Sands under clearing skys...


We stopped at the dunes at Peffer Sands...


I had a wee play rolling down, good fun!...



There steeper than they look as you can see by my roll out speed on some film...




At the Peffer Burn something i have never seen before has popped out the moving sand.
A wreck of an old ship...


Its about 20 meters long so may be what was known as a Fifie...
an open top sail powered fishing boat.built from around the 1850s.
Seen some of the other bits of this wreck here but never the main vessel...










Hopefully we can find out what ship it is,Davies father being a fisherman may know of it or someone who does.
Lots of bases of WW2 coastal protection Anti Glider Poles have appeared in the fast running Burn,in spate after the rain last night...


We both managed to cross with dry feet and rode along to the old WW2 Machine Gun Post thats slid down the washed out Dunes here...






Built with Niddrie Bricks from Edinburgh...


The view back down the way we had come was fantastic with the sun shining on the wet sand and the rolling surf with its spray in the air...


The coast becomes more rocky now along to Seacliff..


Wouldnt want to be under this WW2 coastal defence anti tank block when i falls down...


Here at Scoughall Rocks (pronounced Skoal- as in the Lager) is the natural Scoughall Harbour,i have took a picture of the rocks here before but Davie pointed out its name...


Rather than riding over the rocks we took the path up into Seacliff Estate.good views with a bit of hieght gained...


Along to a nice wee descent to Seacliff Beach...


And across to the The Gegan rock and up above the Harbour...


Claimed to be the smallest comercial Harbour in the world...


Seacliff Beach is one of my favourite places.Esp on a summer evening...

Today some huge waves were breaking on the rocks...




It was amazing watching the waves rolling in, here is a wee bit film...


Always a great view here across to Tantallon Castle on the cliffs...


And to the right perched on the cliffs is the closed M.O.D Gin Head Radar Research Station...


On the other side of the rock we sat and watched huge waves roll in...


Heading back along Seacliff Beach...




Retracing our route onto Peffersands Beach and a few folk out walking now then we met this we pup...Pug meets pug!...


Riding up through Tyninghame Estate and past the `Tree Dragons`...




Both heading for home i rode some muddy paths and tracks to get home ofroad just before sunset.Another great day out...


Had not planned to do a Youtube film as did some short films i posted on Flickr but thought be it would be nice to capture a good day out on the coast...