After Saturdays disappointing cycle cut short due to a pheasant shoot up at Aikengall I wasn't too bothered as one of my daughters Ceilidh wanted to go out for a cycle with me on the Sunday anyway ,so leaving my home in Innerwick I dropped down onto the coast to cycle into Dunbar to meet up with Ceilidh...
Crossing the new & old A1 roads, down through a field track & I'm on the coast in less than 5 minutes.
Some sea anglers trying their luck beach casting from the shore here at Whitesands beach, that's the first time I have ever seen anyone fish from here apart from a guy that fishes from a sea kayak just off the shore.
Another coastal observation post left behind from WWII this one is just off the fairways of Winterfield golf club & through the years the rock on which it sits is slowly starting to be eaten away by the relentless erosion of the waves. There are lots of anti tank blocks around the coastal edge of the golf coarse & there is one in particular that I'm keen to find as I have seen a photo on a local forum that there is a block which has broken up through time to reveal a wheel barrow which was inside the block with the rubber tyre intact ! Making me think for what reason did the workman throw his barrow into the block's mould, did he drop it in, a punctured tyre he didn't want to fix, the end of his shift, who knows ? Even these simple anti tank blocks have their own stories lots of them have dates & signatures on them.
The locally famous & iconic 'Bridge to nowhere' spanning over the Biel burn. The bridge is cut off at high tide & I remember years ago sea anglers used to wait on the bridge for high tide then fish from it until the tide went out again so they could get off again.
I think someone owes forty shilling !
An unusual species for Scotland but I believe that some farmers are rearing Llamas for their fur, this one however was kind enough to pose for a picture & is from the East Links Family Park which homes all sorts of animals along with a narrow gauge railway & all sorts of fun activities for kids & family's.
The Hedderwick burn a Kona & a Ceilidh, Lots of erosion along this part of the coast & lots of damage due to the recent high tides which have been more than a metre higher than normal.
An information panel of the bird life that feeds on the estuary at low tide.
Beautiful but erosive.
There are remnants all around left over from the war including these anti glider poles.
With the tide recently receded someone tried to have a go at cycling along the sand but soon had second thoughts !
The river Tyne.
Foxlake adventures, a recent development bringing something a little bit different to the town with wake boarding, an assaualt coarse which is up high & over water, crossfit training & as the photos above show frisbee golf.
I at one time worked with a local woodcutter at weekends & remember him telling me about this huge oak tree in these woods & I think this must be it, the woodcutter guy reckons that it dates as far back as the 1500's. It has branches bigger than the trees around it !!
Not something you see every day, a modern times rail carriage minus the wheel bogeys, I think it would make a cracking garden shed :-) and loads of old cars lying around the farm.
Through the farm crossing the Hedderwick burn again & back onto the coastal path.
As we were nearing this field we could smell them before we seen them this onion field which would almost make your eyes water while they were being lifted.
A sad end for someone's Christmas tree as it has ended up here in the Biel burn.
Anyway time to call it a day thanks for looking & please come back again, cheers for now.
***Hello Back again, just a little update to this post that I wanted to share, after my wife saw the pictures from this cycle she said that she recognised the railway carriage parked up on the farm & being the detective that she is it never took long for her to have a eureka moment...It turns out that she saw this very rail carriage on the foxlake adventures facebook page as they were running a competition as what it could be used for & now for the cool bit...It turns out that this is the very carriage used in the Danny MacAskill's 'Imaginate' video :-o how cool is that ?? Anyway I have included a photo of the carriage being unloaded from a lorry & for those who have not seen the Imaginate video I've included that to.
So there you go cheers for now.
Pretty cool eh ?
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