Cycling, coffee, and an otter.

Saturday morning was overcast but quite mild. I didn't really have a plan so just cycled east to find somewhere to have breakfast.

So with no plan, I hadn't any great expectations. But as so often happens, these days turn out the best.

After pedalling along the coast I turned around then cut around Torness on the way home.

The tide was at low springs with expanses of kelp exposed. I sat down on the rocks and got the coffee brewing on the stove.

Out amongst the weed the shore birds were searching for grubs and then I caught sight of something special. Just a ripple in the water but I followed it and was so lucky to sit enjoying my breakfast and watch an otter feeding.

This has to rate as one of the best breakfast tables I've sat at.

Back on the Trucker

I haven't been out on the Long Haul Trucker for over a month. Building and riding the On-One Fatty then getting caught up in all sorts of boat mischief has meant that I've not been putting any decent cycling miles. There's only one way to sort that out, so a bit of air in the tyres and off I went on Sunday morning.

Last week's storms have passed but there was still a northerly wind and a bit of sea running. I just headed along the coast to Cockburnspath then turned back and went around the power station at Torness on the way back.

Big sea and a bigger sky.

  

 
Just some of the thousands of  13 tonne 'Dolos' blocks that dissipate the waves around the power station.

Barns Ness lighthouse in the distance.

Rowan berries at Broxburn on the way home. Not very far, about twenty miles but it was good to get back into a couple of hours of steady cycling.