"Red sky in the morning ... shepherd's warning" ....

24th September 2017 (Sunday) .... 08.30    “Red sky in the morning ... shepherd’s warning” .... and we had a red sky this morning.    It was bonnie down on

Elie Bay.

the beach, but the tide was full in:  I need water like a mirror, or wet sand for reflections... and, because there’s breeze from the Southeast, we didn’t have mirror like water.    The sky had a lot of red in it, for the 20 minutes or so, preceding sunrise;   the actual sunrise was bonnie, but not spectacular.

Tugs, Atlantic Kestrel and AH Varazze, with platform Transocean Prospect in tow, are three-quarters of the way across the Bay of Biscay.   For some inexplicable reason I have been able to pick up AH Varazze now and again, even though ‘she’ is well away from land masts.

20.00     Well ... I tell you something;   Bergen is one hilly place.   I am absolutely kn... shattered, having spent six and a half hours watching the World Road Cycling Championship.     Starting outside Bergen they biked into the city, and went 12 times

Sunrise time ... and dog walkers.

round a 19.1 kilometre circuit through the city, with three climbs every time... a total distance of 276.5 kilometres (171.8 miles).   No wonder I’m shattered!    I did, an ironing, and other things when watching the race .... intermittently.    The commentators were ‘worried’ by the fact that Peter Sagan had been feeling unwell at the start of the race, and spent 98% of the race in the peloton;  however he was in the right place at the end .... and won his third consecutive World Championship.   I suppose that he, and the other competitors, will be even mair tired than I am tonight.

I intended going down to get some sunset photos this evening, but, with the sun being hidden behind the clouds I cancelled that plan, and had a cuppa instead.

It has been an, overcast and mostly dry day, but rain is forecast to arrive over us later tonight... and be with us until tomorrow afternoon.   The East wind is forecast to be

The Ferry beach 10 minutes after sunrise.

with us for a next week at least;  which is unfortunate, because the air from the Continent ,is not good.... being full of foreign rubbish.   I have been promised, on good authority, .... this will all change when we leave the EU.

Photographs :Top – 15 minutes before sunrise, Middle – a few minutes after sunrise, and Bottom – The Ferry beach, ten minutes after sunrise.