Gorgeous hair day ..... nae wind ... nor rain.
19th
October 2017(Drop
in Cafe- day) .... 09.30 what a gorgeous morning .... definitely a day
for being out. It looks overcast
towards the West, but
right now we have bright sunshine, and not much in the
way of wind .... and what little there is, is from the SSE. I spent a happy hour, with the camera,
around the rocks, at the edge of the tide ... which was near enough full out. Sunrise was hidden behind low
cloud,... nevertheless, the sky was a
kaleidoscope of pastel colours. I’m a
contented bunny ... now I must feed ‘Puku’.
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| Elie Bay .... 20 minutes after sunrise. |
20.00 Mostly we’ve been under a layer of cloud
today .... grey and uninspiring after the initial promise at sunrise time; and it began to rain at 16.45 so we have a
dreich evening... but not cold.
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| Elie bay 10 minutes after sunrise time. |
The
‘Drop in Cafe’ was quiet at first but soon filled up, and was buzzin’ like a
bumble bee’s nest by 15.00. My only
activities today has been the beach, at sunrise, then along for the papers
after breakfast, with the Drop in Cafe in the afternoon. I felt sluggish most of the day.... in fact I ended
up having a migraine just before the rain arrived, which explains the sluggish feeling. This is the first migraine I’ve had for a
while... I suspect it is due to the change in the weather.
On
my way down to the harbour, after the ‘Cafe’ I stopped to take a few photographs,
and ended up talking to a Canadian couple, who are touring Scotland for the
next three weeks.... hopefully the weather will be good for them.
‘Our’
tug, AH Varazze has arrived at Valetta (Malta), and tug Atlantic Kestrel is
between the toe of Italy and Malta on her way to Aberdeen. Olympic Leopard (our tanker) is out of
range just now but should be getting near to the Cape of Good Hope... when she
will begin to sail more eastwards, towards China, than south.
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| Elie .... late afternoon. |
Tomorrow’s
weather is going to be calm and grey... with the possibility of drizzly rain at
times. It also means that there’s
unlikely to be a dramatic sunrise .... but I’ll have a peep out, at 06.00, to
see how it looks towards the East.
Photographs
: Top and Middle – taken at sunrise time this morning, and, Bottom – Elie Harbour
late this afternoon.
