THE UPRIGHT WOODEN POST.
28 JUNE 2025.
SEATON SANDS
HARTLEPOOL.
Beach Buoy.
Sunday, 18 January 2026
SEATON SNOOKS TEA ROOM OUT AND ABOUT CARD.
SAT AT STUBBORN DOG STACK WHALE WATCHING.
26 JUNE 2025.
SEATON SANDS
HARTLEPOOL.
Beach Buoy.
SEATON SNOOKS TEA ROOM OUT AND ABOUT CARD.
DUNE GRASS AND HAY FEVER SIT AND THINK.
25, JUNE 2025.
SEATON SANDS
HARTLEPOOL.
Beach Buoy.
SEATON SNOOKS TEA ROOM OUT AND ABOUT CARD.
A WABBIT ON THE DUNE EDGE.
6 AUGUST 2025.
SEATON SANDS
HARTLEPOOL.
Beach Buoy.
SEATON SANDS, HARTLEPOOL. 18, JAN. 2026.
Still only 5-22 at time of writing.
If it were Summer we would head for the beach.
It isn't so...
Today in Hartlepool the Sun rises at 8-15 and sets at 4-15.
Eight hours of sun/daylight.
High tide was at 3-29 a.m.
Low tide will be 9-32 a.m.
The plan is to walk to the beach as daylight approaches.
Lets see how that works out...
AI
When you are up at 2-30 a.m.
I blame a 12-30 kick off for messing with my body clock.
You drink coffee.
Update blog.
You drink coffee.
Then faff with AI.
I had wanted an upturned hull of a shipwreck.
Anyway, come on in.
We have cake.
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BEACH BUOY.
Saturday, 17 January 2026
SEATON SANDS HARTLEPOOL. 17, JAN 2026.
Beach Buoy and Another Dog walked to the beach.
As they reached the Esplanade, two old men passed one another.
The men were even older than Beach Buoy so he feels at ease calling them old.
One was a member of Team Mick Aston Jumper.
He and his Black Pug were heading north.
The other old man was heading south with a determined walking stick.
As Beach Buoy and Another Dog reached the beach steps,
Crows landed nearby as if wanting payment for entry.
"How much?" asked Another Dog.
"Seed." replied the Crow.
Payment was agreed.
They reached the beach at 8-04 a.m.
Low tide would be at 8-54, so the tide was well already.
There was a breeze from the south east.
Beach walkers and beach fishermen were to the south.
The low tide exposed the wreck once more.
One of three beach fishermen.
Beach Buoy is no expert, but he would try further south.
He has been sat at Stubborn Dog Stack and seen fish jump clear of the sea there.
They headed to see the wreck once more.
It's timbers will see us all out.
On the way they had a single bouncing Crow for company.
Every now and then it would stop.
Then it would do a Crow equivalent of coughing up a fur ball.
On one such occasion, Beach Buoy stood facing the Crow.
He pointed south towards the Stack.
"You'll have to wait until up there."
A couple walked their dog by the water's edge.
A simple perfect pleasure.
Beach Buoy collected five suitable stones as he and Another Dog
began to make their way to the low level route.
8-39.
"Morning Mate."
Beach Buoy added the five stones.
He patted
THE
stone.
He had a sit and a think.
Another Dog sat thinking her own thoughts.
Stubborn Dog would do this a lot.
It was a looking out to sea pose that won him Dog of the Month in Coast Magazine in January 2018.
*Gasps*... eight years ago!
One of the things that stung the most when Stubborn Dog died was thinking about his own little sitting and thinking moments.
What was he thinking. Those secret thoughts have all gone now anyway.
He still misses him and his stubborn habits.
Beach Buoy thought some more.
A lady with a pointed hat and a backpack headed south on the beach.
Her small dog ran ahead.
He stood to go.
No Crows.
"See you mate."
He left seed anyway.
He wondered if any other birds had used the giant pencil perches?
There aren't that many vantage points for the birds to land on in the dunes.
Maybe a Kestrel or perhaps an Owl had perched there?
Back along the low level route to the beach below.
A lady looked at her mobile phone as she headed south with two Border Collies.
One danced like a free spirit chasing cartoon birds.
The other crouched plotting ambush after ambush.
The three beach fishermen stood chatting.
Lines out at sea.
In next to no time the lady with the two Border Collies was heading back to the north.
Up near the dunes, the lady who always walks with a white dog and a black dog travelled south.
She only had the black dog today.
Beach Buoy hopped that all was well.
Beyond the fishermen, two sea swimmers screamed as they entered the sea.
To the north, above the Village.
Clouds seemed to stack like freshly washed and folded washing.
Perhaps towels?
BEACH BUOY.
SEATON SNOOKS TEA ROOM OUT AND ABOUT CARD.
24, JUNE 2025.
DOLPHINS!
SEATON SANDS
HARTLEPOOL.
Beach Buoy.
Friday, 16 January 2026
SEATON SANDS, HARTLEPOOL. 16, JAN. 2026.
Friday morning.
Note as ALWAYS photographs on this blog are filtered.
Sometimes l may go over the top.
I don't care.
My call.
My blog.
My pictures.
Maybe they catch the mood that l am feeling?
Maybe it is how I see the world?
Maybe it is how I want the world to be.
It usually is the same scenes and the same people over and over.
There are worse places and much worse people.
A place where strangers and their dogs can just be themselves.
If it is not for you then perhaps it wasn't meant for you.
I hope you find what you are looking for and find contentment too, l really do.
Thank you for looking.
I'm just re-walking walks and re-talking talks.
Paul...
Beach Buoy, Borrowed Dog and Another Dog had parked up in Seton Park.
The day had started with freezing fog.
Seaton Carew was all but clear now.
To the north, The Headland was fogbound.
They reached the beach at 8-30.
They had passed Not not Beach Buoy and his dog on the Esplanade.
"Morning."
"Alright? It's getting lighter." (On a morning.)
"Yes, it's great."
Down near the water's edge, a dog took a man for walk.
A lady stood by the sea in what sunlight there was.
According to Beach Buoy's fancy new tide table book, it was around twenty minutes after low tide.
A light breeze with a chill attached blew from the south west.
A single Crow watched as the walked a seacoal line.
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The bird followed them as they progressed towards the wreck.
Beach Buoy collected five suitable stones.
The wreck today.
Beach Buoy spread some seed out onboard the wreck.
Crows came for breakfast with the Captain.
They continued south.
They stopped to chat to the Sunderland Supporter.
It was a good chat for a good ten minutes.
What Sun there was, climbed into the cloud.
Up in the dunes, an unseen voice shouted a wandering dog.
A lady walked the highs and lows of the dunes as her dog, a Spaniel ran up and down the sandy banks with it's tail set to full wag mode.
A Milky Sun returned as they walked the low level route.
Mr.Gunn/Lunn gave a distant wave from the beach as he headed south with Thursday Basil (On a Friday.) and Excellent Dog Alfie.
The distant wave was returned.
They headed up to Stubborn Dog Stack.
"Morning Mate."
It was 9-15.
He added the five suitable stones.
He patted
THE
stone.
He had a stand and a think.
Team Gunn/Lunn continued their circular walk on the Beach Below.
Nice person.
Nice dogs.
A Crow landed on one of the giant pencils.
It stared, perhaps wondering if Beach Buoy had brought seed?
He had.
He left the Crow and seed behind.
Other Crows went to the stack as they returned along the low level route.
The Sea Serpent enjoyed the limited attention that an early morning appearance can bring.
Sea Pottery.
TRADITIONAL GINGER BEER?
He left it for others to find and ponder.
The Sun tried.
For a while their sunshine shadows led the way.
Later than usual, the man who once had four dogs went by with three.
"Morning."
"Morning Paul."
How did he know Beach Buoy's name?
He had never told him.
They chatted briefly.
Beach Buoy and the dogs continued north.
He wondered...
What if the man who once had four dogs does a blog too?
Today's might read.
"The man who once had one dog went by with two. He never did ask me my name."
Two men in Orange overalls and fleece jackets walked to the water's edge then south.
This was Beach Buoy's uniform for many years.
Over near the access ramp a man scattered food for Crows and Gulls.
They headed to the access ramp close to the beach huts and Crazy Golf.
A man walked back from his sea swim.
A long walk with such a low tide.
He walks to the sea from his sea front house.
Air dried.
BEACH BUOY.
SEATON SNOOKS TEA ROOM OUT AND ABOUT CARD.
23 JUNE 2025.
A CLOUD -DUNE JIGSAW.
SEATON SANDS
HARTLEPOOL.
Beach Buoy.
Thursday, 15 January 2026
15 JAN. 2026. SEATON SANDS, HARTLEPOOL.
Thursday morning.
Beach Buoy, Borrowed Dog and Another Dog had parked up in Seaton Park.
It's free and no two hour parking disc is required just yet.
A light breeze was blowing from the west.
Team One Black Ear were heading from the south.
This was unusual.
The Village Church Bells rang for 8-30
Beach Buoy and the dogs went down the access ramp that was just in front of the Beach Huts.
He chatted to Team One Black Ear.
They were leaving.
Today's walk was to the north to avoid a roll on a dead bird situation.
Beach Buoy and the dogs headed towards the wreck.
The tide was way out.
A man ran from the sea.
Beach Buoy and the dogs walked towards it.
He collected five suitable stones.
A photographer was down by the wreck.
He had a tripod set up.
Possibly going for a long exposure and the effects that it gives?
Beach Buoy goes for exposure of a different kind.
He took the photograph above.
It is on Historic England and Tees Archaeology Websites.
The one above, taken 24 October 2021 was the start of the die off controversy.
By the end of that day it was on the Northern Echo website.
Then the Press Association rang.
Beach Buoy gave them permission to use it.
It went on many big newspaper's websites.
A good while later, the New Scientist contacted Beach Buoy to ask if OK to use.
It was.
Other photographs appeared from nearby beaches that looked more dramatic and tragic.
Those were taken by others.
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The Sea Serpent frolicked.
A Milky Sun appeared at 8-49.
They headed to the low level route.
"Morning Mate."
It was 9-05.
Beach Buoy added the five stones.
He patted
THE
stone.
He had a stand and a think.
A lady and her two dogs crossed the Grey Rocks to reach the beach.
It looked like a no Crow day at Stubborn Dog Stack?
Beach Buoy took out the tub of seeds.
He shook them.
The sound attracted three Crows in total.
Only one was brave enough to stand on a giant pencil.
"See you mate."
He put some seed down on the sand.
They left.
Crows arrived.
Then Sun tried to break through.
The photographer was still down at the wreck.
The tide was coming back in.
Beach Buoy and the dogs headed to the access ramp once more.
BEACH BUOY.
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