A Visit to Coldingham Beach

Today we headed out to Coldingham Bay for a walk along the lovely beach there. The journey to Coldingham was a blaze of yellow from the many fields of Rape Seed

Looks as if this will be a good harvest as the flowers are looking good.

The beach has some lovely properties up at the top and many beach huts fringing it

It is maybe a bit early in the season for the beach huts to be getting used yet and especially as there was quite a cold wind blowing. We enjoyed a lovely coffee and savoury flapjack at the beach cafe. This coast in Berwickshire does not have the quantity of beaches like Northumberland.

A lovely house up the top with beach huts below it

More huts further along the beach

A wide expanse of sand an an incoming tide with it due to be hight tide at about 3.00pm

Gaye dressed to match the fields

Above the high tide mark

On our way home we stopped off at Eyemouth to do some shopping at the Co-Op next to it this work of art commemorates the storm of 1881when many fisherman were lost at sea and this depicts the women and children that were left to mourn them.

Back home at Burnmouth at about 3.00pm and its high tide with the sea the closest it has been this week to our cottage. These have been quite low high tides and the tide does often reach the base of the cottage.

A Day With The Last of the Summer Wine Walkers

Our friends from Langholm and Edinburgh arrived at 11.00am and after coffee we walked along the sea front to Partanhall. There used to be 16 cottages there but this is now 13 cottages as some have been combined to make larger ones. We spoke to a resident who told us there are only 3 cottages with residents and the rest are second homes or holiday homes. This area gets very few day visitors due to the steep road down and there are no facilities in the area for visitors eg shops or cafes. 

 Tom, John, Niall, Martin and Ken ready for the morning walk. They were joined by Sandria while Gaye, Elspeth and Aileen stayed in the cottage for a chat.

Gaye, Elspeth, Sandria, and Aileen on our afternoon walk to Ross just a little way along the coast

The view from Ross looking back at our holiday cottage

The view from the cottage to Ross

The Last of the Summer Wine Walkers

I included myself in this one. We have had a smashing day with good friends. A nice lunch in the Clubroom Restaurant at Eyemouth Golf Club and the sun shone all day.

A Return to Spittal After 66 Years

This is the promenade in Spittal. I camped with the Boy's Brigade in Spittal in 1959 and 1960 so it's 60 years since I was last here. At the BB Camp in 1959 we had a wood burning range for cooking and every bit of wood in the area was scavenged to keep it going. We didn't have a single drop of rain that week.

The pier at Berwick upon Tweed and the mouth of the river Tweed

I remember watching the fishermen catching salmon in nets from the beach 60 years ago. They rowed out in a half circle dragging the nets behind them and then pulled them in. They caught loads of Salmon in those days. The numbers decreased and then the Tweed Fishing Associations bought their licences and closed them down

A closer look at the pier and Lighthouse

Where we camped in 1959/60 is now Council houses by the look of them from a distance but nothing much else has changed in Spittal

Back at the Old Lobster House in Burnmouth it's now just after high tide and that's as close as the sea will get this week. In the visitors book there are comments about the cottage shaking at high tide in a storm. The building was built over 300 years ago so it must be very strong.

A Steep Morning Walk Followed by a Trip to Dunbar and St. Abbs

My morning walk was once again along the shore to Partanhall, but today I climbed the path up the cliff to come back a different way. I needed a rest at the top so had a seat and used The Merlin bird app on my phone to identify 16 birds in 10 minutes

Looking down to the shore from my seat

The narrow part of the path

Overlooking Burnmouth Harbour

The old road from the houses. Last winter the low road to the houses was blocked for a month after a very bad storm. Only people with 4x4 vehicles could use this road. 

It's not to bad at the start and then gets progressively worse.

Gaye with John Muir on Dunbar High Street

The Bridge to Nowhere on Belhaven Beach at Dunbar. Unfortunately the high tide was not very high today so instead of going nowhere the bridge continued to go somewhere.

From Dunbar we headed down to St Abbs

Just outside the harbour entrance the sea was quite rough in places.

Fortunately the harbour was quite calm

Not much going on in the harbour, but it looked as if a lot of fishing boats use it

This was an hour or two after high tide so the fishing boats must have left

While I was walking round the harbour Gaye had a sleep in the car and was woken by a terrible noise on the roof. It was this Herring Gull stomping on the roof of the car.

A Visit to Eyemouth

After my morning walk we headed a few miles up the coast to Eyemouth and parked the car near the beach next to the Co-Op

Eyemouth Harbour is the largest and most secure harbour in the area and offers lock free access to a deep water berthing facility. It is the main fishing port in the south east of Scotland. 

This dredger is busy lifting silt out of the harbour.

These 3 vessels were from Lowestoft

A nice beach at high tide and a nice esplanade. We enjoyed our walk along the Promenade and Harbour and had a nice Coffee in a Cafe on the Harbour.

We headed back to Burnmouth and watched a Heron feeding just outside our house.

A nice garden in a nearby house.

Another view of The Old Lobster House.

 

A Walk Along the Shore to Partenhall

The rocky shore just in front of our cottage

Our cottage called The Old Lobster House

Our cottage from the road

Burnmouth Harbour about 90 minutes before high tide

The smaller inner harbour

The road next to the harbour

This commemorates the women and children left after the East Coast Fishing Disaster of 1881

The road to Portenhall

Portenhall cottages

The village is a collection of houses of which many will be holiday cottages. The road to it is not good and during storms it may be blocked with stones and boulders washed onto it. A very spectacular place to live.

The cottages have a very steep cliff behind them

Lots of character about these cottages and I would love to live there but the road to it is terrible

The beach with no sand so the public dont bother to come

The best section of the road

Burnmouth inner harbour

This is a lovely peaceful place to stay for our weeks holiday. The bad road down to lower Burnmouth and the lack of a sandy beach keeps many tourists away.