Tuesday 16 October 2012

there's an outside?

***bad language alert!  Not for children...***

So we had some unseasonably nice weather a week or two ago, and since man is still here I got him to take me out for some walks.  (anyone else hearing Barbara Woodhouse?)
I took photos for you, and rather than bore you with tales of all the walks on one post, I'm going to spread the fun over a few posts - arent you lucky!
Dunno if I need to point out to anyone, but I have a ruined hip, and I'm generally pretty useless at doing any kind of distance.  Or gradient.  Or surface that aint flat and solid...  So these were very short walks....  Just in case any of you were expecting some awesome hiking tours...  (wait till you see my photos from 2 laps round the park...)  (I'm not joking either...)

First walk was Quendale Beach.

It might help when you look at the photos to not read the text, and instead imagine temperatures in the balmy mid to late 20's, a soft tickling breeze, the lullaby of gently lapping waves...


Clearly no car park conveniently beachside, so I've marked in orange the route we took and how far I got.





This is the first view you get of the beach as you walk down thru the sheep fields. (Avoiding copious amounts of poo.)  








This is a closer view....  now is the time to imagine all sorts of nice temperatures etc...






Three (or was it four?  Cant remember) gates later you get down behind the dunes, where I am told it would be excellent for taking the bike for a run (I'm becoming a mine of useless bike information...*) and once you pop over the dunes, you come to this long, pale pale sandy beach.  Innit nice?



Unfortunately what you dont see is the cold, battering, hair whipping, ear aching wind, and the not even remotely close to warm temperatures...  However.
Isnt it shocking how the youth (stop laughing) of today deface things so hideously?






Dont worry, my man kept watch at all times, we wiped it out immediately after photos, and there was no one around to have seen it anyway...    (it was my little message to Camille as a thank you for the swap goodies I received.)





As the above picture might hint, I did a bit of paddling!  In the North Sea.  In October.   And it wasnt actually all that cold.  Obviously I'd have complained just a little had it been anything more than my tootsies that got wet... but for feet, not bad at all.  After 15 mins or so, I even managed to get the man whip his shoes & socks off!   Actually got him swearing a lot too....  Apparently our differences of opinions on temperatures extends to sea water also.  I'll finish on a photo of my podgy wee plates o' meat, just in case you doubted me... 







* bike information that is only "useless" to me, because I cant play too.

30 comments:

  1. AWESOME! I loved taking a walk with you :)

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  2. Walkies!!!!
    Thanks for taking us on a walk with you :-) Really beautiful scenery, ans I can well imagine the chill factor! Brave you for paddling, I am a wimp and would have been huddled against the dunes wrapped in about 50 layers and muttering swear words under my breath!

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  3. So lovely. I don't mind the cold wind when I'm at the beach.

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  4. See ?! Your an outdoor girl at heart !!
    Great post, feel like I've been for a visit. xx

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  5. That is such a pretty spot and it sounds like quite a hike to the beach. Too bad about the wind, but it is great that you were out.

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  6. such a beautiful place. we walk a lot, even though I have a really hurting knee. We also bike a lot. The Swissys were great fabulous walking dogs, the bassets not so much. Two of the three love to walk, Chloe loves to just smell. Hence the Chloe the Smelly Basset moniker.
    glen

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  7. Stunning beach S (minus the cussing!). Sure a bracing wind blows out the cobwebs! Glad you had a good day! Jxo

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  8. your photos are so good I feel like jumping on a plan to Shetland right now. Well done for getting your feet wet :)

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  9. you are my very favorite! i hate the effing wind!

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  10. Lol a walk on the wild side! Sorry it just sprang into my mind and now I can't stop singing it! Gorgeous missus, and at least you didn't have horizontal hale stones in that wind! Trust me, it Bloomin hurts! (Don't get me started on bikes!).

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  11. Scotland has some of the most awesome beaches and some of the coldest weather!

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  12. Fabulous photos! Loving the beach art!

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  13. You promise you will make more of these posts?!!! Longing for the beach. Thanks for sharing the fucking awesomeness. I love it.
    cheers!
    -k

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  14. Gorgeous photos! They reminded me of the fabulous summer I spent on Shetland many moons ago...like 1984....I was smitten! One day I'll make it back up there - I loved it!

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  15. What a beautiful spot. That beach looks gorgeous. I think I would have wanted to paddle my toes too.

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  16. Great post Sarah - I love the thought of the two of you guitily erasing the evidence with the wind blowing in your face. Gorgeous gorgeous photos - I love the beach in the winter...much nicer than having to take your clothes off!

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  17. Beautiful! I love walking on the beach - don't suppose you got an ice cream at the end of it though?!
    P.S. Bloody freezing here today as well - I've been back from Archie's teatime walk for 40 minutes and I still can't feel all my fingers...and I had gloves on!!

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  18. Beautiful beach. What it needs is a really good kite!
    Thanks for showing us the Shetlands - I've never been. Maybe one day!

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  19. Brilliant. And that looks like quite a long trek for you. But I hate cold wind in my ears too so I would have been whinging for England!

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  20. Fab pics - wish I could have come for a walk with you! I'd have done the paddling and everything!

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  21. Oh it does look beautiful, despite the cold wind. When I went to the Shetlands I was gobsmacked at how beautiful the beaches are, good enough to rival our Aussie beaches, except for the temperature of the water and air.

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  22. enjoyed your descriptive outing (except for the poo!) ... it's about 5 years since I've been able to walk great distances - it always seems quite a struggle when you can't see where you're going!!

    is it a blue flag beach, and did they have to take the flag down while your engraving in the sand was visible?

    Looking forward to hearing about you swearing at little kids playing in the park next!

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  23. Funny how lovely the weather can look until you actually go out in it! The sea does look really warm actually, but I imagine it was otherwise. =D

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  24. Paddling? Are you mad,woman? Better start injecting the Lemsip directly! Pics lovely, though.

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  25. How nice to be out moving about. Thanks for sharing.

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  26. Yay for photos of beautiful walks. Loved them. Shetland didn't look like that when I visited, the cloud was too low to see anything much, sadly. Think the temperature may have been the same. Would love to visit again. Juliex

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  27. Lol, you should have just pushed himself in (having rescued the car keys first of course ;o) )

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  28. Blimey, rather you than me girl, that water looks Freeeeezing! ..……can you tell I lived on a Mediterranean island for 5 years? I haven't been in the English Channel since – let alone the North friggin' Sea!!!
    Beautiful wild & windswept pics tho' :-)

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  29. Yay for the walk, it's a pity about the cold and the wind, but the views are so beautiful.

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