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| It was around 7-35 am. The Sun had yawned, stretched and scratched but hadn't got up just yet. The temperature was around 3 degrees but it felt mild after the week's hail, snow, Icy winds and thunder and lightening. Low tide was to come in less than an hour. |
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| The Sea had left behind lots of shingle areas to explore for finds. |
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| The shingle down at the South End of the beach didn't disappoint. A lovely tumbled Sea Alley |
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| The distant call of birds had me reaching for my phone camera. I clicked upwards to get this photograph above. They were way up high and hard to see due to the grey sky. I fiddled about with my phone's camera filter setting and it showed the flock as black dots; thus making them much more visible. |
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| Two metal items that were wedged in the rocks on the North side of North Gare Pier. |
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| We crossed over the Pier to North Gare Beach and the mouth of the River Tees. |
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| The pale Sun illuminated the Industry on the South side of the River. |
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| The tide was so low I was able to get beyond the rocks onto a rarely seen patch of riverside sand and almost look into the river channel. Behind me the North Sea's waves broke just behind the almost land locked Pier. The Sea seemed high up, as though we were well below Sea level. It looked a bit odd to be honest. We went towards the North Gare Pier, with it's tip just touching the Sea like a swimmer's first toe in the the water to test the Sea temperature. The low Sea gave us an opportunity to collect some sinkers lost by previous Pier fishermen that were wedged in the rocks that surrounded the Pier end. |
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| The rusting Buoy seem to reach out for the decaying Oil Rig. |
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| It looked in perfect condition. It was too far to take back to the village. I carried it up to the Pier and left it out of harms way in the confident hope that a fisherman would take it home. Perhaps a trade for the sinkers that we had already claimed as ours ? |
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| The we headed back along the Beach ... |
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| ... towards a now sunlit Seaton Carew. |
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| It's always just a matter of time before the latest craze ends up on a Beach somewhere. |
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| #2minutebeachclean In recent days both a Seal and a Whale have been spotted in the Hartlepool Bay area tangled by Sea trash; either plastic or ghost fishing gear. |
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| The dark nights have tempted me to start to draw some of my previous finds. BEACH BUOY. |
