Is easily the least visited stretch of coast in East Lothian, despite below the often busy A198 coast road that follows the boundary wall of Gosford Estate from Longniddry to Aberlady there are few folk who stop and walk this part of coastline...
Google Earth...
Summer, low tide...
The John Muir Way follows the coast here but even then there is hardly anyone walks that, which is why i often visit here if out on a Sunday afternoon for a couple of hours ride as i did last week...
It has a good mixture of sand and technical rocks - more so at low tide, and often there is a lot of good beach combing on its mile and a half lenght...
At low tide you can ride in an inch or two of the sea a good half mile out,
and despite the noise of traffic heard above the high tide line along the JMW path out there at the low tide line you just hear the sea and wind,
That for me is the beauty of beach riding, getting away from everyone in an area so near to others yet you are so far from them,
Summer evening at low tide...
As with most of our coast the relics of WW2 line the coast here too...
And for myself i still find new stuff of interest, At the western end of the bay at Ferny Ness the encroaching Sea Buckthorn in this picture would not have been here 70 years ago...
I tripped over this in the ferns between the Sea Buckthorn bushes last year...
It is a spigot motor mount, fixed to the ground in concrete, no one else (online) or in any books has documented this here...
It would have been used by the Home Gaurd to operate a spigot mortor to fire on invading troops as they crested a small hill on the coast road...
Home Gaurd...
There is more history of around Ferny Ness that i need to write about soon on the other blog, (time!).
I made a film of Sundays ride, thought about time i did a POV film and although it took a while setting up the tri pod etc, but at the same time you get to do some beachcombing too, and it took a couple of hours editing the 90 files!, but part of the fun...
A cold clear winters day on the beach, i love it...
Song i have used before but it was stuck in my head on the day...
`Buckie High` by Boards of Canada...
Click 720p to watch in HD and watch full screen on your moniter as it is then not as dark... HD is time consuming to edit but looks nice,
Great video. Dreamlike. You portray the landscape so well. Your historical interest really adds a lot. The John Muir trail sounds cool.
ReplyDeleteThanks, the John Muir Trail follows our county of East Lothian mostly on the coast from its west to eastern boundary`s passing through John Muir`s Birth place at Dunbar where his childhood house is now a museum, he is of course famous for what he achieved once his family move to America,
ReplyDeleteI need to blog our County`s most famous son... -:)
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Love the spigot mount!
Please take next time also a photo / video of the arc of fire.
That will be intresting!
Tommy
Tommy; if fish boxes had a deposit i would be minted -:)
ReplyDeletegood idea on that, the distance across to the road where the photo of the buckthorn above the blocks on the tide line is about 100 meters or so,
I found another spigot mount also not documented on the Nature Reseve at Aberlady Bay, will post a pic on the next post from out there!