Low tide at the pier

Another altogether familiar view that I've never photographed from this angle, but looking so tranquil under that interesting sky that it struck me anew this evening. Dunoon's Coal Pier in the foreground and the Victorian pier of the town behind it are sufficiently distant to conceal the fact that neither is now used as they should be. The Coal Pier, an old-fashioned basic structure, used to be part of the seafront car-park, but I have a feeling it may no longer be so used since someone reversed slowly off it and into the sea, while the main pier is a travesty of its past self, having been partially renovated but completely shut, with the tiny ferries we now have using a ramp next to the new breakwater and PS Waverley having to use the breakwater itself.

The tide was extremely low this evening, so that unexpected rocks showed quite far out and birds pottered on the muddy beach. I could almost have thought this was a seaside resort ...