Kona To The Coast

Well it's Monday & after 2 weeks holiday it's back to work, back shift ! So the mornings are mine ! After family duties over the weekend I was hoping for a nice day to get out on the bike & the sun was shining for me, so after a quick coffee & some breakfast I was fuelled up & ready to go, since it was such a nice warm day I decided to head East & head for the coast to do a section of the John Muir Way starting from just outside the village of Cockburnspath...

Tyme cottage in Innerwick, built as a post office by the Thurston estate in 1893, but after the breakup of the estate in 1948 it became privately owned.

Crossing the Thornton Bridge with the Thornton Burn running under it, see how the water has carved it's way through the sandstone rock through the years.

Branxton farm up the hill ahead.

Top - Gorse bushes in full flower with Torness in the background.

Bottom - looking over towards Coldingham moors.

An old R.O.C. nuclear monitoring bunker just past Branxton farm, it was built during the cold war, the bottom picture is a model of how the inside looked.

& in the very same spot an old WWII observation post to monitor the Firth of Forth for German activity.

Birnieknowes, farmers planting Turnips (Swedes) the white fleece covering the plants stops a certain kind of fly which attacks the plant roots.

I love these old signs, this one looks a bit worse for wear but reads 'To Birnieknowes Branxton & Oldhamstocks.'

Top - One of 5 bridges crossing the Dunglass Burn 4 road bridges 2 of which are now unused & the high railway bridge.
Bottom - The view over the back road bridge.

Above picture is the lovely lodge house on the entrance to Dunglass estate.

Information board for the John Muir Way.

The bridge to the right is the old A1 bridge & above me is the new A1 bridge.

Top & bottom pictures the nice woody trail down to the coast line.
The 2 in the middle this big sycamore tree growing out of the rock face !!

These amazing colours & patterns on the eroding sandstone cliff face.

Sneaky wee paths & now onto the beach front.

Kona on the coast.

Some Cormorants drying their wings after a swim.

Dunglass beach looking East & West. A real suntrap this beach I could see the heat shimmering above the rocky beach, also a very quiet beach don't often see anybody down here.

Waterfalls & the sun shining on the flowers.

Now high upon the cliffs looking back on Dunglass beach with the tide slowly retreating.

Some hollows in the rocks, soon to be sea stacks, the bottom photo highlights the size of the rocks falling to the ground.

The A1 to the left, ahead the JMW heading towards Thorntonloch beach, Torness in the background.

An old fence straining post rotting from the inside out, it must be a perch for Crows or Buzzards eating their prey as it always seems to have old rabbit bones in it.

Leaving the coast now & heading back inland towards Innerwick, almost time to get ready for work, middle photo of thr Thornton Burn I crossed earlier now heading off into the sea.

Innerwick castle built in the 14th century,it's a real shame that this castle has been allowed to fall into such a state of disrepair with all the ivy etc bursting through the walls. The bottom photo is an artists impression how the castle looked in its day.

Spotted this to the side of a window on the West facing wall, looks as if at one time there was a figure but has since been eroded away.

Back in Innerwick now just time for a quick bite of dinner & then off to work.
Thanks for looking be back soon. 
P.S. invested on a new Charge Spoon Saddle for the Kona & a good investment it was, never got a red raw backside on this cycle. Cheers for now.