Valhalla VI

The local weather station has reported a high of 22C today. A dramatic change from yesterday.

Very warm and sunny when Maeve the Deerhound and I set off after lunch today. Straight down the road to the shore again today, with Maeve avoiding the spiky Hawthorn twigs and branches left by the tractor after it trimmed the hedge that backs on to peoples gardens further down the road. It has yet to do the other side. I often wonder how the hedge manages to recover so well as the trimming leaves the bushes looking very torn and almost shredded. But it does, time after time.

The tide was a little further out today, and although the water was very active and the waves quite rough we had a good strip of harder wet sand to walk along. Maeve likes that much better than deep soft sand. We found some good big pieces of Sea Glass today too. I do love to be able to walk along the shore and spend time on the beach. Not so much seaweed on the edge of the water, although nearer the Fishermen's huts it always gathers where the channel in the rocks opens onto the beach.

The owner of "Valhalla V" was the only person at the huts again today. He had the covers off both of the big outboard motors on the back of the boat and was working on one of the them when we walked past.

We met the chap by his cottage again and stopped to pass the time of day. He was telling me that he hopes the high tides due in September and October don't breach the bottom of the gardens on the shore.

Since there was a good blue sky, the waves were looking dramatic, and the sun was far enough over to get it behind me I took a number of shots of the boats straining at their moorings in the channel between the rocks. The bigger of the two boats is "Valhalla VI" :-)

Later Apothecary7 should be back blipping and catching up on comments.