Coal Dust

There are very many beautiful white sandy beaches in the Hebrides and the north west of Scotland and yards of clean yellow beaches in the rest of the UK but Porty is not, at least today, amongst them.
There had been an extremely high tide at 3am and the sea had reached almost to the sea wall leaving behind a wide band of coal dust high up on the sand as it ebbed.

By the time Sue and I arrived at 8:30am the tide was so low that for the 17 mins we were in the sea, at least 10 of those minutes were taken up walking through endless shallows in order to get the water even waist deep. Fife was getting so close we felt it might be possible to have a coffee in Kinghorn.