Go East!

Normally we head off in an Westerly direction for our morning walk, but today we decided to go East. It was such a gorgeous sunny morning, its a slightly longer walk but well worth it. The sky was blue & the sun twinkling on the water, you just can't beat it.
Todays blip is St Bridgets Kirk, a 12th century ruin that lies on the coastal path. It started to decay in the early 1800s and was left to fall to ruin when a new church was built. Several gravestones remain in the old churchyard, and a 'keep' is built into the churchyard wall,(which you can just see on the left)providing a place from which the church beadles used to guard against body-snatchers. Body snatching was a lucrative 'occupation' back in the day. Burke and Hare were 'at large' in Edinburgh and supplies of bodies for experiments were always required. The story goes that some of the more unscrupulous 'beadles', rather than protecting the graveyard, would signal across the water to Edinburgh at night when there was a fresh grave to be had at the ancient waterside cemetery.