coastrider: After the Storm... Midweek Beachcombing...

Thursday, 27 September 2012

After the Storm... Midweek Beachcombing...

After a wild 3 days that has seen widespread flooding and damage to many peoples homes throughout the UK Thursday dawned calm with clearing skies...

After the Apocalyptic Washout i headed for Belhaven Bay near Dunbar after work for some beach combing, what better bike to ride in post apocalyptic conditions than the Moonlander...

With its 100mm wide rims and 4.7" tyres it makes light work of very soft sand which Belhaven Bay often is after heavy rain and high tides.
See here how less a footprint the Moonie has compared to human footprints...

`The Bridge to Nowhere`...

Along the sands and the coastline is littered with debris...

Some small surf still and some folk getting some Surfing Lessons...

If you want to feed your plants in your garden then gather some of this kelp, shred it in a leaf mulcher then dig it into your garden, people have gathered Seaweed for hundreds of years for agriculture and gardens.
We have several old roads marked on old maps as `Ware Road`. This means it originally was a seaweed road, there is one east of the Knowes farm to Hedderwick, and in North Berwick...

Seaweed Feeds are still available and used on Golf Courses here in Scotland. It is still one of the best organic feeds.
Here is a picture of farmers from Castleton farm at Dirleton Village collecting Seaweed in the 1950s down on the coastline at Yellowcraig...

Loads of sea life has been washed up, including Lobsters...

Sea Urchins, i found two together, then looked up and their was loads of them, hundreds even...

Various types of starfish...

Sea Potato...

Flounder...

All these Sea Urchins in a small area...

And of course sets of creels...

I put this wee fella under some kelp so hopefully he will make it back into the sea at the next high tide...

This slick tyre made by TORO is a off of a Golf Course greens mower. holes for ropes in the sidewalls ...

Around the point of Spike Island and into Hedderwick sands, really soft sand out here is no problem for the Moonlander...

Washed up was this old bottle , this is the second time i have found an old bottle intact here after a storm and spate of water into the Tyne Estuary, It must have unlodged the bottle from its years of lying there...