Midweek Cycle; Offshore Sea Haar at Tyninghame...

The easterly onshore breeze continues and the same dry weather pattern with Sea Haar in the morning, burn away to hot weather in the afternoon, then the Haar drifts in as the evening cools again...
I went down to Tyninghame and enjoyed a deserted wood and car park. Maybe everyone thought the mist was in again?, it lingered offshore and drifted in and out  as i spun through the woods then along Peffersands and it made for some spectacular light...

All pics still from Go Pro HERO 4 Session camera

Over the dunes then back along to the woods to Ravensheugh...

Superb wee cycle!

Wee film,
Song is `The Lightning Back` by Jane Weaver


Sea Haar Evening Beachride; May 2018 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.


More soon...

Return of the east coast haar..

Classic east coast weather for this time of year as colder easterly air meets warmer air on land and harr forms,  sometimes in small clouds that drift by, or as a solid cloud bank, usually burns off during the day then comes back in at night when cooler,
Sunday was all fogged in and the easterly breeze was cold so i took M for a cycle along to Shell Bay then Gosford bay...

We rode around to Gosford Bay and the sun started to break through...

Sitting in the baking heat it was like a different day to an hour ago!...

I love how the trees here are burned by the prevailing westerly salt air from the sea...

It was nice and quiet with the coast road closed for the Edinburgh marathon, and the runners all been and gone now...

Back at the van and it was back into the harr and cool again!, it was like we had found a little micro climate!, at least when it`s cool like this you can light the stove in the evenings...

More soon...

Return of the Sea Haar...

It came from the sea.. no not the rubbish 2005 remake! but the original by Director John Carpenter

One of my favourite films is the classic cult 1980 film  `The Fog`...
Instead of posting the trailer here is the making of the film, and how this 1980`s classic came about...



Today dawned a clear sky but within a half hour when i rode to work a sea Haar rolled in...
This occurs when cooler sea air is blown onshore and meets warmer air inland,
It can be pee soup thick and soaking wet, or like this morning waves of a dry cloud like mist drifting by...

Throughout the morning the sun was trying to burn through and produced an amazing light...

Funny thing is it can be like this on the East coast, while 5 miles inland it is a clear blue sky!,
Delivery drivers said of the good weather in Haddington  on the other side of the Garleton hills!

Here are some older pics from previous blog posts of Sea Harr on the coast...

Fog, Sea storms, and history documented into folklore...
Famous Author Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote books while here in East Lothian at Seacliff.
A book he wrote in 1892 titled  `The Wreckers` was based on tales he was told of `The Pagans of Schoughall` who lured boats in storms onto the rocks by walking a horse with a lantern tied on a rope between the horses neck and and a front leg,   slowly walking the horse along the cliff tops would look like to a boat out at sea in a storm seeking sanctuary of a boat at safe anchor bobbing in sheltered waters, the boat would then run aground as it came into the shore on the Carr rocks and the plundering  by the goulish people would then take place...

So real or not you can imaging such things taking place here on the coast when you live here and know the local history...

If your interested in this kind of stuff a previous blog post tells of East Lothian own version of a Whisky Galore type happening...

East Lothian`s Own Whiskey Galore Story...

More soon...

It`s good to just cycle...

And enjoy the views around your own back door...
The easterly wind continues and after a very wet Saturday evening, Sunday was a warm if breezy day with a weird sky of high fluffy clouds of sea haar forming and drifting by inland from the onshore breeze as the cold onshore air met warmer air inland,
It made for a spectacular light in the sky as the sun would burn through the clouds as they drifted past...

Muddy after all the rain. i rode from the John Muir Way all off road to the coast...

Look at all the Gannets in this picture, fantastic!...

Ground steaming in the sunshine...

If your new to the blog then here is what went on in these buildings over 70 years ago during WW2...




Along to North Berwick and as expected on a Sunday afternoon it was mobbed with day visitors...

So i headed inland, and stopped by Francis`s house for coffee and food...

Then took Mowgli for a quick run alongside the bike...

Mowgli loves to swim!...

Dropping Mowgli off and it was along the John Muir Way and again that bridge...

Back to East Fortune and the motorcycle racing was on...

Those are scooters racing!, they have a Mod class! :)...

Guess this is my idea of road cycling today, or gravel grinding?, i just call it cycling :) ...

Good to ride the usual local 30 mile loop on the Genesis again, yesterday i rode about 10 miles  of some of this local loop on the newly built Surly Cross-Check fixie, both bikes are fun to ride in their own way and a nicely matched pair to hang in the kitchen...