Saturday Beachride...Sunshine too!...

About time the sun showed itself after a bit of a miserable week weather wise,
Saturday was sunny with a westerly breeze, riding down through woods to the coast there was a fresh smell in the woods, after all the rain i imagine...


Time to revisit my favourite bit of coastline,from Aberlady along to Yellowcraig,
Out onto the Bay and an hour before low tide i soon reached a retreating tide crossing the bay, it is pretty slick out here and in places even the pugsley just spins out, riding on the areas with shells helps get grip and keeping forward motion...




A pile of stones out east of the Peffer is i think all that remains from a wreck of a wooden vessel here, stones were often used for ballast when empty...


There are of course 8 or 9 hulls over on the west side of the Peffer...


Here is a photo of the bay over 100 years ago...


Following the north shore of the Peffer Burn and ahead were Seals lying up on the sand, soon as i got near they moved into the water, clumsy on land but fast once in the water...








The seals would swim up along side to the estuary, watching me then diving down to reappear, closer than the camera can show...


Creels that have broke free...


Lovely light on the water at the Peffer estuary...


2.1 miles of exposed sand to ride now east to the rocky headland of Gullane Point...


Passing the Mini Submarine wrecks, the green algae now has died back and the rusty metal is visible...




Up along the high tide line but nothing new of interest washed up, there is still this lovely smoothed tree limb that was washed up a few weeks ago, bleached by the sea and sun..


Looking west from Gullane Point...


Over the other side was a bamboo chair washed up, someone has sat it up on the headland!...




I took 5 and soaked up the view...


Gullane and yellowcraigs beaches would be busy today with the nice weather so i didn`t hang about and just before Broadsands i would cut inland to head home,
it was warm out of the wind and here just past Eyebroughty island the sea was calm where it was sheltered...


The main harvest is only a few weeks away now, Winter Barley has been cut and this now Spring Barley and Oil seed Rape is being cut, the county is covered in fields of golden brown Wheat, my favourite time of year scenically in East Lothian...


Here is some film from riding around Aberlady Bay, click on 720 to watch in HD,
Song is `Labyrinth (remix)` by Ludovico Einaudi...


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Oh, and that chair?, i went back down and got it that evening, worth the 20 minute carry back to the car -:)...