Wednesday Walk - Yellowcraig Beach, East Lothian, Scotland on a beautiful sunny day

I'm having to call upon a previous walk for todays photos, as I've been so busy today, that I've not managed out for a proper walk (apart from the school drop-off and pick-up). We visited Yellowcraig Beach in East Lothian, Scotland last year, and I found the pics from that.

Yellowcraig Beach is on the east coast of Scotland and looks right out into the North Sea. The beach has good stretches of sand, and also rocky areas. I liked the scene above because of all the boulders on the beach - something appealed about it to me.

It was a beautiful sunny day when we went, and it was really busy, although it is a big beach, so you dont see it much in the pictures. The buildings in the edge of the wood above are actually hotel chalets for a really nice golf resort.

The island of Fidra sits out from across the beach (only about 300m away). And it has a beautiful lighthouse on one end.

The island was looked quite cool and I took tons of snaps of it. I quite liked the ripple effect in the water in the pic above.

From this beach you can actually look out over to the county of Fife, which is further up the east coast of Scotland, and see the coast there quite clearly. I've cropped the pic above because in it you can actually see two oil rigs and a wind mill on the edge of the Fife coast (if you look close enough - sorry its not a great pic). The oil rigs are actually floating drilling platforms, and they get towed there from the North Sea for refit and repair.

The pic above is taken looking east along the beach towards North Berwick. Right at the end you can see two islands - the smaller of which has a white cap. That island is called the bass rock, and its really interesting, because the white colouring is caused by two things - the presence of a huge amount of sea birds and their poo !

You can see things things a little clearer in the pic above. The Bass Rock is a protected bird sanctuary, and the white is genuinely nesting birds of which there is a crazy number. Its a colony of ganets, which are quite amazing birds to watch, as they dive bomb into the water to catch fish - its quite awesome to see. But its amazing to think they they have visibly turned this island white !

I was trying to get a better pic of the lighthouse on Frida, and in the above pic you can also see some extra structures on the island. The remains of the wall at the bottom look rather old.

And from a certain angle from the shore we were also able to capture a pic looking through this sea arch on Frida, which is quite cool !

On the way back to the car park, we spotted a few nice flowers in the dunes.

And within the forest we saw this really funny shaped tree (below) - it sort of looks like a snake rearing up, to me !

And there was one last thing I wish I had taken a picture of, but didnt. It was the queue for the ice cream van. A guy was selling ice cream from a wee van in the car park, and the queue was huge - he must have made thousands. Forget crypto everyone - and get yourself an inc cream van - thats where its at !

All the best @hoosie