Cycle to the Lighthouse... Pt 7...

 

Nearly at the Lighthouse!, and Barnes Ness is a place full of Childhood memories visiting here with dad when he was the Head Countryside Ranger, visiting Victor who was the resident Ranger here and exploring the Geology trail that used to be here, the signs are long gone now,

East Lothian Council need to get stuff like this sorted and signed for visitors...

The Geology trail was signed with information about the Lime Kiln here and it's history,

A short section of coast here reveals a lot of history,  and where boats one moored here to take away the processed Lime,   to where once there was a forest when the sea was a lot lower...

You can see the holes here in the rock where the trees once were...

Another wee film, Song is `Receiver` by Tycho,

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Cycle to the Lighthouse... Pt 6

 

With the rocks behind us and after a short section of the John Muir Way,  We rolled onto Whitesands and more or less free wheeled down across the beach as blowing sand danced across the windswept beach...

Another wee film here, Song is `Plains` by Tycho,

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Cycle to the Lighthouse... Pt 5

 

Continuing along below the golf course and at it's edge the John Muir way trail we then crossed big grass tussocks avoiding mud filled holes, again a huge variety in riding surfaces can be found to cycle on fat bikes in such a short distance when you just slow down and look around at other options away from the usual paths and trails, find your own route is often more fun, as today was proving...

Wee film again here, Song is `Pink and Blue (Instrumental) by Tycho,

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Cycle to the Lighthouse... Pt 4

 

Continuing our wee cycle and a stretch of sand led to another great rock slab section that was fun to explore...

Doing this sort of cycling out here I find really relaxing and you just get absorbed with the lines of the rocks and with he sun shining lovely light on the sea as you roll along looking for lines up and down the rock steps where the lava must have lifted and dropped as these huge plates cooled,

The Scottish east coast is famous for its Geology from Dunbar down to St Abbs and is something that would be good to learn more about, being a huge fan of rock crawling on Fatbikes!

Wee film again here, Song is `Outer Sunset` by Tycho,

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Cycle to the Lighthouse... Pt 3

 

Onto the huge expanse of rock slabs and with small barnacles giving loads of safe grip we rolled around across the the smooth surface, formed from Lava and where eroded with sea and weather pillars rise up like a small model of somewhere like Montana or Moab with the back drop of big sky and distant rolling clouds, well not really but it's as good as that gets around here!...

A few more miles more to do to reach the Lighthouse...

Wee film here, Song is `Montana` by Tycho

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Cycle to the Lighthouse... Pt 2

Continuing along the coast from Dunbar to Barnes Ness, and our Bikes set up on 100mm wide rims and 4.8" Schwalbe Jumbo Jim tyres - still the widest options available again proving to make light work of the loose rocks and gave great traction on the rock slabs. Both bikes were running 4 psi front, 5 psi rear tyre pressures and being set up Ghetto home made tubeless made for no pinch flats as we rode up and down some sharp edges through the cycle,

Wee film again here, Song is `Local` by Tycho,

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Cycle to the Lighthouse... Pt 1

 

It has been fun rediscovering the coast around Dunbar since moving house, slowing down a bit instead of just passing through on the John Muir Way trail, be it to the west around Hohn Muir Park, or as today along the coast to the east of the town, this afternoon with an earlier finish at work and G off today we cycled along to Barnes Ness riding nearly the whole way below the golf course and enjoyed the challenging rocks, easier today being dry with the strong wind, but still a challenge in the windy gusts to keep you on your toes...

Wee film along the east beach,

Song is `L` by Tycho,

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Midweek Cycle; Beach and Bales...

 

Midweek and grey but dry skies on the coast when we went a wee cycle after work in the early evening,

With a low tide it was fun to ride some coast and harvested fields and trails through JMP woods to mix things up...

Wee film, Song is `Mississippi Two Tone` by Phontaine

Onto trails and a baled field, a rare thing this year due to a lack of straw from such a dry Spring, and a wee loop around...

Another wee film, Song is `Break To The Future` by Phontaine...

Back along the JMW and through the woods, no one around and the trails to ourselves...

And other film, Song is `California 67` by Phontaine...

Through the ace wee section of sandy single track lined with Ferns as it winds through the Pine woods...

And another wee film, Song is `Smells Like Home (Yellowsoul)` by Phontaine...

Out the woods and across the Salt marsh to Belhaven...

And a last wee film of the cycle this evening, Song is `In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country`              by Boards of Canada....

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