SEATON SANDS, SEATON CAREW, HARTLEPOOL, 27-03-16.

IT WAS A WINDY LATE AFTERNOON WALK. THE LIGHT NIGHTS WERE FINALLY GETTING A KICKSTART. I WOULD ADD ; SUMMER'S HERE.... BUT IT WAS A BITTERLY COLD WIND.

THE WIND HAD BLOWN ALL THE SOFT SAND OFF THE BEACH. THE SAND FROM THE DUNES HAD EITHER BLOWN OUT TO SEA OR GOT STUCK TO THE WET SAND LEFT BEHIND BY THE TIDE AND THE REGULAR HEAVY DOWNPOURS THAT WE HAD SUFFERED DURING THE DAY.

AS THE THE FINDS WOULD BE FEW  DUE TO THE WEATHER AND TIDE CONDITIONS, I LET OLD FLAPPY LUGS LEAD THE WAY. I DON'T LET HIM OFF THE LEAD MUCH AND HE ALWAYS WANTS TO SOMEWHERE YOU'RE NOT...IT'S A BIT OF A TUG OF WAR AT TIMES.

SO WE SET OFF; THE GOOD SHIP BEACHCOMBER.
TACKING OUR WAY INTO THE HEADWIND ZIG ZAGGING FROM DOG SCENT TO DOG SCENT AS THE CAPTAIN DICTATED , HEADING SOUTH. THE ABOVE IS A VIEW BACK TO THE VILLAGE.

WE MADE SLOW PROGRESS, WHAT WITH THE DOG SNIFFING AND ME SEEING THE ODD PIECE OF GLASS OR POT.

THE TIDE WAS JUST TURNING.

NOT MANY OTHER BEACHCOMBERS. IT WAS EASTER SUNDAY; WITH BETTER WEATHER THE BEACH WOULD BE FULL.

THE DOG STOPPED HERE BY THIS TIMBER; MADE HIS MARK...

THEN LOOKED PUZZLED AS TO WHY WOULD I TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF IT.

WE GOT AS FAR AS THE ROCKS AT THE SOUTH END OF THE BEACH... THEN A SUDDEN DROP IN TEMPERATURE, THE WIND GOT EVEN STRONGER.

THIS FELLOW WAS ON THE WAY, SO WE STEPPED UP THE PACE WITH THE WIND IN OUR SAILS AND HEADED NORTH.

SOME BIRDS ON THE WATER'S EDGE, STRUGGLED IN THE WIND. I THINK THEY WHERE SANDERLINGS... I STAND TO BE CORRECTED.

BEYOND THE NORTH GARE IS THE RIVER TEES AND INDUSTRY.

NOT MANY FINDS , BUT THE DOG WAS PLOTTING THE COURSE AND..... SNIFFING A GREAT DEAL.

A GOOD HAUL FOR MY #2MINUTEBEACHCLEAN


BEACH BUOY.

MIDDLETON , HARTLEPOOL 27-03-16.

IT WAS A WINDY MORNING, A GALE BLOWING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT, SOUTH TO NORTH.
AS I PARKED THE CAR, A MAN WALKED FROM THE BEACH SAYING "YOU'LL GET YOUR HEAD BLOWN OFF ROUND THERE!"
ONCE WE GOT DOWN ONTO BEACH LEVEL THE SANDBLAST WAS OK, BUT THE WIND WAS STRONG AND VERY COLD.

AS YOU MAY SEE, ALL OF THE SOFT SAND HAD BLOWN AWAY ACROSS THE DOCK TO THE HEADLAND.
THIS MEANT FINDS WHERE LAID WHERE THE SAND HAD GONE AND LEFT THEM EXPOSED.

CAN YOU SEE 3 PEOPLE CENTRE STAGE?
THEY APPEARED FROM NOWHERE; BAGS IN HAND; GLASS PICKING. THEY LEFT AS QUICKLY AS THEY CAME MOST PROBABLY DUE TO STRONG COLD WIND.

THE GLASS AND POT FINDS.

THEY INCLUDED THIS MIDDLETON LASS.

#2minutebeachclean

BEACH BUOY.

SEATON SANDS, HARTLEPOOL 26-03-16.

IT WAS VERY WINDY, I HAD SPENT THE MORNING SHELTERED FORM THE WIND BY THE CLIFFS AT EASINGTON. HERE IN SEATON CAREW , THE SAND DUNES BLAST YOU.

WINDY DAY FOR THE HORSES.

SANDBLAST.

THE SEA WAS CHOPPY AS THE TIDE CAME BACK IN.

WE SHELTERED DOWN BY THE NORTH GARE.

FOUND A PLANK FOR A SEAT AND THIS PLANK SAT ON IT AND CHILLED OUT FOR A WHILE,

#2MINUTEBEACHCLEAN

NOT A GREAT DEAL OF FINDS DUE TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

HELLO.


GOODBYE FOLKS,

BEACH BUOY.

EASINGTON COLLIERY, DURHAM 26-03-16. Beach No.17 out of a target of 52 for the year.

I HAD NEVER BEEN TO EASINGTON BEACH BEFORE.
IF A BEACH IS NEW TO ME I TRY TO GO AS THE TIDE IS GOING OUT, I THINK IT IS SAFER AS THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE OF GETTING CAUGHT BY THE TIDE.

EASINGTON IS A FORMER PIT VILLAGE ON THE NORTH EAST COAST OF ENGLAND, BETWEEN HARTLEPOOL AND SEAHAM.
MUCH OF THE FILM BILLY ELLIOT WAS FILMED HERE.

I PARKED IN THE ABBOT STREET CAR PARK AND HEADED FOR THE RAILWAY VIADUCT; HOPING TO FIND THE BEACH BEYOND.

FREE PARKING.

OFF WE WENT.

WE CONTINUED TO THE END OF THIS PATH , THERE WASN'T ANY SIGNAGE SO WHEN THE PATH FORKED... I HEADED NORTH. NOTE TO THE COUNCIL... A TO THE BEACH SIGN WOULD BE NICE.

THAT IS WHERE I WANTED TO BE.

AROUND HERE I MET UP WITH A GENT AND TWO DOGS WALKING TOWARDS ME. I ASKED ABOUT BEACH ACCESS AND HE INFORMED ME THAT IS WAS BETTER TO HEAD BACK SOUTH TO A BENCH AND I WOULD SEE SOME STEPS DOWN TO THE BEACH.

THIS WAS THE BENCH... IT WAS THE SECOND BENCH ON THE PATH.

A TRACK TO THE STEPS.

CAUTION.. THE STEPS WERE UNEVEN AND SOME OF THEM HAD BIG DROPS.

AND A BIT WIBBLY WOBBLY.

FINALLY THE NORTH SEA.

I WENT SOUTH AS FAR AS THESE ROCKS... HORDEN BEACH LIES BEYOND , BUT THAT CAN WITH FOR ANOTHER DAY.

DRAMATIC CLIFFS AND A WALK SOUTH FOR US.

WE WENT AS FAR SOUTH AS THIS.. I THINK THIS LEADS TO ANOTHER  BEACH .... ANOTHER DAY.

TYPICAL OF THE FINDS HERE; MERMAID'S TEARS.

#2MINUTEBEACHCLEAN ... IT WAS A VERY CLEAN BEACH.

FINDS.

THE FINDS WASHED.


BEACH BUOY.