A week of high pressure clear coastal weather...

Been high pressure weather giving clears skies here on the East Lothian coast this week...

We have had amazing sunrises through early morning mist,
Been cold and frosty but dry under foot,
Stunning blue skies during the day and with little wind often a flat calm sea with some amazing reflective sunsets,
Full moon risings too over the Lammermuir Hills!,
A few pics while out and about...

Sunrise on the commute to Whitekirk...

Sunrise over Dunbar, from Whitekirk Hill...

Sunset, North Berwick West Beach ...

Sunset, Fidra Island, from Point Garry...

Sunset, West Bay, North Berwick...

Sunset, St Andrews Cross, North Berwick...

Late afternoon sun, North Berwick West beach...

Late afternoon sun, North Berwick harbour...

Late afternoon sun, North Berwick East beach...

Sunset, The Bridge, Aberlady Nature Reserve...

Sunset, Across Aberlady Bay to Kilspindie...

Sunset, Across Gosford Bay to Cockenzie, and sunset over Arther's Seat, Edinburgh...

 So it is typical that the day i plan a ride straight from work on my Surly Pugsley to the coast on my local patch at Tyninghame was the only evening in a week and a half it would cloud over!,
Still never mind, i planned to do some film of the late evening light and sunset but that was not going to happen so instead i did some film through `Links Wood` to `Mosspoin`t and then around the shoreline of `Fir Links Wood`,  then along some of the `Secret Trail`  and also below it along the 4pm high line rocks to Peffersands.

Tyninghame Links Car Park...

These woods were once walked by the famous naturalist John Muir as a boy before his family moved to America.
Many of the ancient Oak and Beech standing today would have been here in Muir`s time...

Tyninghame`s  Deciduous woods are devoid of leaves at this time of year, with spring on the way the woods will soon be under a canopy of leaves.

How many trees leaves do you know?

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This old Beech has called it a day, would make brilliant fire wood!...

High tide and the water in the Tyne Estuary was flat..

The flat light played havoc with the camera that could not tell the change from sea to cloud and refused to focus often.
Then the cloud cleared a bit over head as i reached Ravensheugh and the light took on that magical shine on the water and wet sand, so i swapped to the compact camera, hence why you start to hear decent sound and the waves breaking on the shoreline...

Film,
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Song is `Tower Seven` by a favourite band `Thiervery Corporation`...

Indian Summer; Nice while it lasted...

Wikipedia; "An Indian summer is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs in the autumn. It refers to a period of considerably above normal temperatures, accompanied by dry and hazy conditions, usually after there has been a killing frost. Depending on latitude and elevation, the phenomenon can occur in the Northern Hemisphere between late September and mid November."

Well we did get one in the last week of September just after the Autumn equinox, and after 7 weeks of pretty much poor weather,
and though short it was lovely, very warm temperatures of 22 Celsius for this time of year and amazing sunrises...








But we never got any amazing long sunsets, instead the sun always disappeared quickly behind a cloud bank to the west...


Autumn has arrived now though, most of the trees have still to turn and show there autumn gold but the geese have arrived for the winter...


Pink Footed geese and Greylag geese arrive here in there thousands from their summer grounds in Iceland. There noise and presence is quite a sight...


With no sunset to film i had to improvise for an ending for a wee film of riding one of many routes down onto Gullane beach, the light was fantasic on the beach,

Song is `Brooks was here` by Thomas Newman and Hollywood Studio Symphony...




The spell of good weather was not to last and it threw it down over the weekend, A Sunday morning cross country ride with friends was cancelled due to torrential rain, though i did get out in the affy when it went off for a beachride to Peffersands...
And a low tide revealed some of the wreck of the SS Poderosa...












Onto the mud flats exposed by the low tide...


And straight across the bay here, in front is a wildfowl hide, built in the stones...


It was hard going across here, approx 5 revolutions of peddling for a metre forward!...but the pugsley got across!, amazing where this bike can go...


Onto an island of green slimey weed, almost neon in colour...




And across this...




The only WW2 Coastal defence Anti Glider Pole still standing upright on the East Lothian coastline...


So this must have all been sand here 70 years ago...


back home through the woods, the ferns have died back for the year now, leaves still to turn on many trees, but wont be long...








Roll on Autumn and winter, Most people feel the opposite about this time of year, i love it, Autumn gold, crispy leave covered trails, quieter beaches, amazing sunrises/sunsets, cool evening nightriding with friends, cool enough for the fire on too... and now working winter hours 8am-3pm means more time not working, ace!