Following surgery before Xmas and no cycling for at least another 2 months i looked back on the blog to find a favourite New Year Cyle to re post. It was back in 2013 and i was up early and left the house in the early dark hours for a 50 mile drive down the A1 and over the border to Berwick and an amazing winter sunrise cycle out across the vast low tide sands of Lindesfarne...
Bike upacked and ready to go it was a case of waiting and watching the dawn unfold...
And what a sunrise...
The light was amazing as i rolled through the dunes and onto the beach at Goswick...
Out across the sands, a huge amphitheatre and no one around...
Past the old fishing nets and wrecks as the island of Lindesfarne got closer...
A toast on the hip flask to celebrate, then it was around the island to join the causeway road and return to Spittal, at Berwick...
It is a place i first cycled during the first summer of the blog,
It is up there along with Faraid Head near Durness, Sandwood Bay, and the beaches of Luskintyre and Scarister on Harris in the Outer Hebrides for top beach riding...
The Sands at Lindisfarne are littered with the wrecks of fishing boats and Steamships, which appear out of the moving sands and low tides.
The area is steeped in history from days of Viking raids to ship wrecks, smuggling and pirates...
So despite being over the border a good Scottish tune for some film i did...
`Captain Coull`s Parrot` by Peatbog Faries
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