Lovely, bright and breezy, day .....

19th March 2017 (Sunday)   ....  20.00    We have had a lovely, ‘bright and breezy’ day;  a perfect day for Jimmy and I visiting Dysart Harbour.    Not only did we

The Rumlin' Gut - Earlsferry.   The village 'coup'.

visit Dysart, we went down to East and West Wemyss harbours too;  making a complete morning of it.

I started my morning by doing the Chapel Green walk, during which I visited the original Earlsferry ‘coup’ .... the ‘Rumlin Gut’.  This is an inlet to the south of the Chapel ruin, into which the  village ‘scaffies’ tipped the rubbish which was then washed out to sea on the outgoing tide;   and probably much of it would end up on the local beaches.    Jimmy and Sydney used to go into the inlet at low tide, looking for any money that may have been dumped with the rubbish:  they were doing their bit for re-cycling!    This practice, of dumping rubbish into the sea stopped when the ‘coup’

East Wemyss fisherman's huts etc. 

was moved inland, to the area, now covered with trees;   the woods at the 1st green.

Jimmy arrived at Ivy at 09.50 and we set off for Dysart at the ‘back o’ ten’... arriving at the first of our ‘harbours’ at 1035.    I found East Wemyss ‘harbour’ fascinating.... it’s a collection of wooden garages, with the addition of quaint, self built porches on the fronts of many of them;    the local fishermen, and sea anglers store their gear in the garage bit;   and chat of an evening in the porches.    Typical old fashioned self build fisherman’s place .... I loved it:   and we were made very welcome by the sea anglers who were around.    There isn’t a ‘harbour’ at East Wemyss, just a piece of land with huts and boats scattered around, and a slip from which to launch the boats.

West Wemyss was our next ‘port of call’, and it did have a proper harbour, though most

Dysart fisherman's hut.

of it has been filled in, leaving only a pier that shelters a few creel and pleasure boats from the Southeast storms.    The village itself is a bonnie ‘auld place’ which hasn’t been destroyed by the building boom of the sixties... and the old houses have been sympathetically restored.   The only part they destroyed was the harbour basin.

We finally arrived in Dysart in time for a snack lunch at the Harbour Master’s house, before walking round the harbour.    I don’t think I have ever seen a harbour where, more or less, every part of the ‘hard standing’ was covered with boats... creel boats, motor boats and yachts... all of which will be being ‘craned in’ in the next few weeks.    Boats on ‘hard standing’ look huge... are huge... but, when in the water they look smaller and, dare I say it ... ‘mair boat like’.    Dysart is one of my favourite harbours .... Maggie and I nearly always went there for coffee when we were in Kirkcaldy.... and both Jimmy and I enjoyed messing about among the boats today:  we’ll go back, later in the year, to have another look around the ‘Wast By’ harbours.

Dysart Harbour middle pier.

We were back in Earlsferry at 13.15.    Jimmy went off home o have ‘50’ I browsed today’s photos then went up to the Hutte and also had ‘50’.    I’ll sleep well tonight.

Photographs : Top – The “Rumlin’ Gut”, Earlsferry,  Next – East Wemyss fisherman’s sheds, Next – Dysart fisherman’s hut, and, Bottom – Dysart Middle pier.