Winter’s stroll on the Scottish Seafield beach in the sun

Winter’s stroll on the Scottish Seafield beach in the sun

A wee while ago you would think the UK had been hurled into an Artic winter with untold snowfalls and frost galore if you read or listened to MSM!

Well that might have been the case in England and Wales. But up here on the East coast of Scotland in Fife we had glorious sunshine albeit with a touch of frost if you looked for it!

But it did bring the opportunities to go for some lovely walks and get some much needed vitamin D from the sun.

There is only so much benefit you can get from taking vitamin supplements.

You can see the clear blue sky as we head down murder hill past our local football club Raith Rovers.

Between my house and the beach or sea side where we are strolling too this afternoon is the Teal Burn that runs into the sea.

Alongside is one of the old mills, Kirkcaldy was full of them. This has now been turned into offices and flats (accommodation).

On the end walls you can just if you zoom in see some Christmas lights, we shall see them on the walk home.

Although it is 2.20 in the afternoon, being winter in the Northern hemisphere the moon is visible.

As we were near a full moon, it is pretty fluffing full! We shall see more of the moon on our return trip!

The beach in question was Seafield beach and look there was a raven trying to read us something on that blue sign....

Bathing Water Quality

Ah the bathing water quality ...

Well I shan't be bathing in the sea today.

Yes the sun was out but no siree no thank you!

It really was a gorgeous day.

Did I say it was cold? Hehe it is winter so of course it is!

There is not really much of a spillage of water here... But ...

Fluffing Freezing

You can see the ice where the water has frozen!

So yes that is too cold for me!

As I mentioned it was 2.20 when we got to the beach and the sun was starting to set!

It does give such gorgeous colours though..

The tide was halfway out and people were out collecting things...

The sun glancing long shadows everywhere too!

Mill pond

The sea when is like this we call as calm as a mill pond.

I snapped this and one of the vivid filters gives it a painting effect I think.. What do you think? Especially with the seagulls on there?

I just love the sound of the waves, water crashing on rocks, the power of nature is something else.

Today of course being so calm, there was no real surf or breakers to crash against rocks.

Play Ball with me?

Too cold for me to be barefoot!

But not too cold for the pups get sand on their paws.

Now what do you think this pup is looking at?

His ball?

Or wondering what the fluff his guardian is upto?

Spoots galore ... Do you know what spoots are?

One of my favourite seafoods which is quite uncommon is spoots or razorfish. These are their shells and this was quite a grouping of them.

It looked like these two pups were on the trail of more razorfish!

While I was snapping the dogs, I nearly tripped over a set of reindeer antlers...

Okay okay you got me, they aren't real antlers, but they could be...

Talking of reindeer it was now actually starting to get quite cold.

The sun was setting fast and it was close to four pm now.

It was time to leave the beach.

These blocks were to stop tanks from landing in World War 2 so are actually about 1 metre in size.

I don't know who who made the dumper truck but I like it!

I purposely did not show any beach combing finds ...

What are these?

Any clues...

This time we really are gone, but those colours that nature provides us for free!

Simply gorgeous...

The building lights!

Remember on the way down to the beach we saw this old mill building and I mention the lights, well you can see them lit up now!

And ye talking of things that are lit up... The moon!

And with that, we were a hop skip and a jump from home!

This post is for #wednesdaywalk which was inspired by @tattoodjay

Thanks for visiting and I hope you managed to get out for a walk this week.