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| Beach Buoy and Stubborn Dog arrived at the Car Park at 5-45 am. It was a bright and sunny start to the day. An equally bright yellow camper van was parked up in one corner of the large and otherwise empty Car Park. It looked liked they had spent the night beside the dunes? A BMW pulled into the Car Park. A couple stepped out of the car. The lady had a long coat over her shoulders as if it were a cape. They walked away from the front of the car. They squatted down looking at their vehicle as if checking something? Maybe that long coat was a cape after all. A new superhero; Headlight Alignment Woman? Moments later they were back in the Headlight Alignmentmobile .... Somewhere, someone is dazzling another with their incorrectly aligned headlights... Thing is; it was a bright morning. |
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| Beach Buoy and Stubborn Dog headed for the strand line and headed south. A narrow cloud came along and claimed the sun for a while. A man walked north along the water's edge with a large black dog. |
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| They had a sit and think down on that large driftwood 'Bench.' The 'story of their own' couple appeared from the North. Beach Buoy moved on. |
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| They stacked the stack To the West an Oil Rig |
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| To the East; a Sea Serpent. |
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| The sky over the grey rocks was as blue as could be. |
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| Coal (Sea coal.), Solar and wind power too. |
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| The rock pools were crystal clear. |
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| A crow and a driftwood sea serpent look north. |
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| Stubborn Dog deflates on a WW2 tank trap. Beach Buoy found a nearby rock to sit on and let the morning sun warm some old bones. |
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| They headed back "Heave!' Beach Buoy sat in the van as a couple rested nearby on a Promenade bench seemingly discussing the virtues of the fold-away electric bicycles. The Yellow camper van had its sea-facing rear doors open. Breakfast with a view? A man cycled into the car park on one of those bikes with over-sized tyres. He rode an imaginary slalom spread out across the car park. He went on to rest on promenade wall, right in front of the Yellow Camper vantage point! The Church bells rang for 8-15 am. A boiling kettle joined in the chorus. Beach Buoy sipped hot coffee as he looked out towards the Sea of sparkling diamonds. --------------------------- |
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| Later Beach Buoy set of on his bike. No oversized tyres for him; just an oversized rider. They passed Graythorp on Tees Road. They are dismantling Oil Rigs. A broken up one, lies at the front of the yard. |
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| Then it was Greatham Creek. The stumps are all that remains of a community of houseboats. |
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| More stumps; legs of an old bridge. A new bridges partially visible on the left. |
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| The tide was coming in, as were Seals. |
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| The old road that once joined the dismantled bridge. |
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| He cycled along a path the led to the viewing hides. |
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| Hide. |
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| Seek. |
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| He followed the path around to a second hide. |
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| World War Two....a hide of a different type. |
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| He headed back... |
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| Keep Out! |
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| He checked on the seals as he headed back. There were a total of over forty spread across the banks of the creek. ----------------------- |
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| Later, Beach Buoy cleaned out the van with no help at al from Stubborn Dog. ------------------------ |
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| They went and parked up, down by the promenade wall. |
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| Peter and Paul. |
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| BEACH BUOY. |
