Another beach walk....

Button insists I take a walk to the beach most days.  I think she may have been a dog in a former life! She goes back and forth to the door, meowing, and refuses to go out unless I put on my wellies (rubber boots), coat etc and set forth to the beach.  Usually the coral beach first then the sandy beach, weather permitting!

There is little sand on the coral beach, and very little coral (or shells) on the sandy beach.  I am convinced there is a sub-sea traffic light system.  Coral to the left, sand to the right, hurry along now! Ha!  I know it probably has something to do with the tides, currents, pier, rocks etc.  But still it always amuses me....

I love the patterns in the sand.

And I love the huge flagstones on the shore....

And Button loves the sandy beach too.  It must be much softer on her paws than the coral and shells!

Tail aloft!

Though she gingerly walks over the small streams that cut across the beach.  This is water that is running off the fields on the other side of the sand dunes and road.

There are always oystercatchers along the shore, even in Winter.  Though most of the summer flocks are returning now.  They don't actually eat oysters (though they might I suppose if they found some!). But mostly they poke about in the sand for all sorts of good stuff.  I watched one of this pair get a small crab out the sand and run off behind a rock to eat it as it's first one was stolen by a herring gull. Great scavengers Herring gulls.  Why work when you can get someone to do it all for you.!

Button wants to go  NOW please....

Clear blue skies, blue sea, no breeze.  Ah bliss!  This was the coral beach the day before our Sandy Beach escapade....

The tide is a looooong way out! This natural "swimming pool" is quite empty.

Button is contemplating a walk to check where the sea has gone.... here she is at the bottom of the old Sandside pier.

But she settles for climbing the steps and having a look out from the top of the pier instead.

Lots of shells piled up against the old stone pier.

Random photo of the old sail shed (where all the sails and bits and bobs from the yoles (small boats) that sailed from the shore here would have been kept.  Wouldn't provide much shelter now!  And you can see it's starting to come away from the main building (the old stable and byres). You can also spot where other "openings" had been, maybe a door maybe a window.  The main low building used to be a dwelling house before the main Sandside house was built.  All the old buildings got altered over the years. Lots of beach stone around to use!

And then back home in time for lunch.  Lunch did you say?  Ooooh yes please say the hens.....sigh....