16th
October 2016 (Sunday)
..... 11.00 What a sky we had this
morning.... very “Turner –ish”; having
said that it was gloomy looking at times,
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| Sunrise time |
because of a bank of low cloud that
moved quickly in from the South.... but the
light was changing all the time: I
enjoyed that. Low tide was at 09.08,
and being a neap tide it was way out: I
walked along the top of the sewage pipe to the edge of the tide....
lovely. Our sewage pipe is encased in
concrete and is a nice flat path about 2 feet wide, all the way down to the low
water mark. It isn’t in fact a sewage
pipe anymore, it only take the run-off from the streets, and would only act as
an overflow sewage pipe when the pump station is overloaded. I
enjoyed this walk; it helps lessen the stress.
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| Elie Granary from the Cockstail rocks |
Jimmy
and I have been to Leven to top up his food stocks; it was an early, and quick ‘shop’; we didn’t have coffee as Jimmy bought frozen
stuff.
21.30 We certainly have had a ‘mixed bag’ of
weather today; cloudy, bright periods,
rain, then a nice ‘bright and sunny’ late afternoon and evening. The onset of ‘bright and sunny’, coincided
with a high, neap tide, of 5.9 metres (or 19.6 feet). The
highest tide of the week will be on Tuesday morning ... 6.19 metres. This means that there would be 4.5 metres
(14.7 feet) of water above the top of my
head, if I was ‘stood staunin’ where I was when I was down at the end of the
‘sewage’ pipe this
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| Colbakie beach, Earlsferry |
morning. Jings the information we auld guys can come
up with is mind boggling.
I
did go out for a walk along the narrow strip of beach we had this afternoon, as
many other folk had chosen to do;
taking advantage of the sunshine.
There were ‘rollers’ coming in... but not the seriously damaging kind: you need a Southeast gale for that. I did the beach, up to Chapel Green then through the Dome Park
to Colbakie beach and home by the golf course:
a pleasant, late afternoon, walk.
Tomorrow’s
weather is supposed to be mair amenable to being ‘out and about’, with more,
and longer, spells of sunshine. I’m
feeling optimistic .... the bike will be out
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| Polish tableaux Earlsferry Town Hall. |
immediately after breakfast. Sunrise is at 07.48 and the tide will be
‘out’ so I’ll be down on the beach quarter of an hour before that event; mind you , more often than not, there’s a
collar of cloud along the horizon and sunrise happens behind that. The magic is not the sunrise itself...
it’s the light slowly spreading over the sky as the sun gets nearer the horizon; assuming the sky isn’t totally
overcast. Anyway sunrise or not, I
like being down there ... especially when it’s a low tide.
Photographs
: Top – sunrise time this morning... the bank of grey cloud came over us 5
minutes after I took this photo, Next – Elie Granary from the bottom of the
Cockstail rocks, Next – Colbakie beach this afternoon, and Bottom – the tableaux
presented by the Polish Paratroopers, who were station in Elie and Earlsferry
at the beginning of WWII.
