Flamborough

South Landing:  a medieval harbour lies beneath the waves.

Seals

Flamborough

Robin Hood's Bay

View from the old railway track, now a cinder path for walkers.

Cliff Erosion

Winter storms wash the land away.  The East Yorkshire coast is slowly disappearing into the sea.  Two miles have disappeared since Roman times

Alexanders

Umbelifer introduced from Macedonia as a culinary herb by the Romans, now established in the wild especially in coastal regions.  Leaves and stems smell is reminiscent of a scented celery, but apparently have a bitter aftertaste unless blanched.  Can't have been that good, because when celery became more widely cultivated in the 18th century it soon replaced Alexanders in the kitchen.

Seals

Grey seals at Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. New pups.

Winter Seas

High tide with a cold north wind.

Flamborough Headland

Good place to be on a sunny summer's day.


Mooring blocks for barrage balloons, remnants of WWll.


Bank of hardheads.


Bumblebee nest dug out by a badger ~ grubs and honey, mmmm yummy! A few bee survivors looking aimlessly lost when I first found it, all gone later.


Probably the best lunchtime view in England.

Sea 1 : Caravans 0

No matter how hard people try to hold back the sea,  it just doesn't happen in the end.  The sea always wins! Would have thought we learned that lesson with king Canute. Recent winter storms have caused serious damage to home made sea defences on Yorkshire's east coast. Finally time to let the sea reclaim what it wants.

Bridlington Crab

Fresh crab from Bridlington, the largest crustacean port in the UK.  Only 10% of the catch stays at home -  the rest is exported to the continent. If you have crab in a top Parisean restaurant, the chances are that it has come from Bridlington. It made an excellent lunch, with home grown salad!

Little Train

Runs along the coast at Scarborough from Peaseholme Park to Scalby Mills. Takes 6 minutes from one end to the other, about 3/4 mile. It's not actually steam as it looks but a diesel engine. Very 60s.

Happy Christmas

Sunset by the sea on Christmas Day - no colour editing! You really had to be there to appreciate it to the full. And we had the whole beach to ourselves!

Here be Beavers.

Or at least, were........ Photo above shows an 8,000 year old beaver dam, exposed by coastal erosion on the East Yorkshire coast. Tooth cut marks can be seen in some of the pieces of wood, and there are well preserved hazel nuts, alder cones (very fragile) and pieces of bark. The beavers did not live by the sea, oh no - at the time they were building, the coastline would have been at least two or three miles away. And we are still losing land to the sea today.

Summer's here

..... even though it's autumn. Just to prove it, here's a photo from last weekend: Cliffs at at Sewerby, looking north to Flamborough Head. 10 days without rain must be a record for this summer!

Ravenscar

Robin Hood's Bay from Ravenscar, on the north Yorkshire coast.