SEATON SANDS,SOUTH GARE THEN SEATON SANDS 23 02 2020.

Beach Buoy had gone to bed at 9pm!
He read until 10.
Woke at 1-58 am
and again at 6-06 am to the sound of seagulls crying overhead.
They reached the beach at 7-02 am
The 7 am Club were on time.
There was a drizzle.
The tide was well out.
The tidal part of the beach looked as smooth as a tidal part of the beach without footprints upon it... Yet !
A couple were up in the dunes taking photographs.
The man took his coat off.
He placed the coat on the sand and the couple sat down and had a sit and think as the world, Beach Buoy and Stubborn Dog went by.
After a while Beach Buoy glanced back.
His and Stubborn Dog's footprints resembled those of a couple of drunks on their way home after a busy Friday night out.
The 7 am club caught up.
Mari the Poodle came over as per usual.
After her neck scratch she jumped and gave Beach Buoy a big lick on the chin, as if to say sorry for not coming over yesterday whilst on her invisible sheep hunt.

Beach Buoy went to the anti-tank blocks from World War Two.
They looked like rolled dice...

In the end, nature won.

They headed back with greys but thankfully no blues.

A man went by, planting flags in the beach?
A Horsey type event?

Yep!
A Horsey type event.
More and more Horse boxes arrived.

They had become a little damp but stopped nearby for a warm drink and a bun....
'BUN!'

After a hot bath, it was off towards Redcar to deliver some ghost fishing gear that a contact wanted for their garden.

Delivery done, they reached South Gare around Noon.
It was WINDY!

The van rocked like a boat out at Sea as the wind from the North blasted the Pier.

First Job; Kettle for Coffee.

A ship sailed by the Rear window.

They braved the wind and headed out.
Here are the South Gare Huts.
They have been seen in an episode of the TV show Vera.

Paddy's Hole; a small harbour near the mouth of the River Tees.

Back to the van to defrost with a warm drink and a bit of a read.

Towards Redcar.

Then back to Seaton Carew.

Stubborn Dog wouldn't budge, so they just rested on the promenade wall; a couple of Sunshine Shadows.

BEACH BUOY.