0.5 meter low tide cycle at JMCP...

 

Another wee local solo cycle as G working shifts,  0.5 meter low tide, probably the lowest tide this Autumn, so good enough reason to ride out to the Estuary mouth of the river Tyne in John Muir Country Park and follow the river until the mudflats that usually are to slimy to cycle from experience...

I often pop out and do the same ride around JMCP, but it`s only the route that is roughly the same, as the sands change with the tides and can be firm or soft, then there is the light - and that is always changing as you have land sea and sky all meeting, wildlife  - mostly birdlife-i don't really photograph it as I cannot get decent pics with a phone but the birds feeding and flying over are always present, this now for instance most noticeable are the geese here for the winter and moving to graze or roost morning and evening...

After recent rain there is a bit current in the Tyne a sit exits into the sea out at the point...

Another fin tip from a 3" WW2 mortar... safe to pick up and inspect...

Here is a good advert why you should not run barefoot on the beach...

Stormy clouds drifted down the hills and I was only home 5 minutes and the heavens opened for a few hours, timed that right! and glad to get out before it arrived!...

Wee film, Song is `Deep End` by Aye Corner Audio

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Midweek cycle; Tyne Estuary at Low tide...

 

A grey morning, well it is November!, rain is often the order of the day in November, even in East Lothian, often the driest County in Scotland with the most sunshine...

Out at the Tyne Estuary point and with a lot of soft sand being moved again hopefully we would be able to ride right around the point alongside the Estuary...

It was real soft but we managed, here the 4.8" tyres on 100mm wide rims set to 4 psi come into their own world. It is amazing where you can get on these bikes when they are set up right...

Across Hedderwick Bay before heading more inland...

Wee film around the Estuary... Song is `Awake` by Tycho,

And another wee film crossing Belhaven sands... Song is `Coastal Brake` by Tycho,

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And Low Tide trails at JMP!...

 

And next day at low tide, loving having John Muir Country Park on my doorstep 5 minutes cycle from home, away from Edinburgh day visitors (except surfers) the coast is a lot quieter here - Gullane and North Berwick and it’s coast is still busy with day visitors from outside of East Lothian despite the Government’s Travel restrictions which people are clearly ignoring, who knows how to bring anything under control if people don’t do as asked?,

Stay in your own bubble, stay safe, enjoy your own coast...

Wee film, Song is `Apogee`  by Tycho,

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Isolation Cycle 37; North Berwick East Beach And Harbour...

Onto the beach  and before hand time to air down the big 5" tyres to make easier work of the real soft dry sand above the high tide line, My Surly Moonlander G is riding has 100mm wide rims and 4.8" Schwalbe Jumbo Jim tyres front and rear, they can be aired down to 3 psi!  nuts eh?

The Surly Wednesday has 80mm wide rims and a 4.8" Jumbo Jim tyre up front and a 4.5" Jumbo Jim rear tyre so 6 psi in the rear on that bike, but could have aired down  to 5 psi ok,

We rode 25 miles on those tyres no probs and as the day went on the comfort of the soft tyres was nice riding home a bit tired from cycling every day for over a week now,

Day of writing up this blog it`s a week to FORTH FAT 2020,  sadly cancelled like everything else and here would have been a load of folks from all over the UK...

Were lucky to be able to exercise daily cycling on the coast and keep safe distances from folk, not touching anything and riding safe too - not the time for  doing anything daft and risking having to go to Hospital, you wuld not be popular!,
Todays big Moon meant a real low tide and we cycled around to the harbour entrance...

Wee film, Song is `6 Underground` by Sneaker Pimps


Isolation Cycle 37; North Berwick East Beach and Harbour, May 2020 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

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