coastrider: Another backdoor local overnight camp...

September and typical weather for harvest time, often mist and v light rain and we were in too minds wether to meet P and A for a local overnight camp at Tyninghame with the forecast unsettled but decided to just go as soon as I was home from work on Thursday and we set off along the John Muir Way (JMW) across to Tyninghame where we met P and A and cycled out to camp at Sandy Hirst Point...

We cooked up dinner on our gas stove while P fired up his box stove on a flat rock and bring cast sandwich toaster made toasties then tents pitched before dark we lit a Swedish Candle I brought, bulky but light it would give us a couple of hours light and we sat toasting marshmallows and hip flasks as the tide receded and the air was filled with calls of birds feeding on the salt marsh...

Next morning it was still misty but warm and dry and we again cooked breakfast...

The remains of theSwedish candle now cooled was broke up and we left no trace of any fire, unlike the rock circle fire pits people insist on building in the woods - this is not responsible wild camping doing so...

P cooked Pancakes while we had our usual Porridge in a Bacofoil bag soaked from the previous evening...

Fed and packed away G and I went a wonder along the coast line and we gathered a lot of sea coal, like the dry Scots Pine wood of the Swedish candle we brought it too was light so it was taken home to use on the Garden fire box some evening soon...