Around The Coast Just A Bit.
Posted: Thursday, 05 October 2006 |
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Now that I've moved to another part of the island; I am delighted to have a small beach close to my house; being something I always wanted, which I haden't had before. I'm exceedingly fond of the sea and the seashore in spite of the fact, that I never in any way earned a living from it.
Yesterday being a good day, after some broken weather, I decided to take a stroll, as I often like to do, round part of the nearby coast. As I progressed, how pleasing to the eye and the desiring spirit, the beaches and the little coves and inlets, with a grand view of Mull ( Mull Of The Cold High Bens ) plus Iona ( Iona Of Collum Cille ) and The Dutchmans Cap; so very like this dutch headgear it in its old fashioned form. The land contrasts with the sea in a strange way - the greens and the blue sea interspersed with green. The October hue of green being dark on the hillocks and amidst the rocky prominotories. A scattering of seawead is already on the beaches after the high winds but, dear me, of what poor quality compared to what we were used to in years gone by.
Anyway, among this weed lots of seagulls rummage to get food; the starlings are down at it too while the eider ducks keep to the edge of the water to gain whatever sustenance there be available.
So that is what my little walk provided for me to view yesterday, and going on normality the next time is bound to be different; but I'm sure to blog on this theme again; a change from crofts and crofting, or at the worst, nuclear power stations.
Posted on Island Wanderer at 01:07
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I too love the ocean but am at the moment living 100's of miles from it. My dream is to live in a little cottage within the sight and sound of the waves breaking, to walk, night and morning, along the sands, and to absorb the calmness and peace that is evident. There is drama, contrasts, and a sense of poetry that flows with the tide. You are in late Autumn ... the best time to be by the seaside!
Plaid from The Outback, Western Australia
Your first sentence made me smile. Living on Tiree how could you ever not have a beach close to your house? Perhaps the emphasis was on 'small' :-)
On the mainland from Glasgow
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