A day out on on the coast of Berwickshire.

Keep running out of time to catch up with the Blog.    Wednesday night was fisrt of the season at Bonnyrigg for the Star.  Thursday, working during the day and then back down in the late afternoon to help with a small wedding party, followed by a Whiskey tasting for students from the local college (went very well) and another big group of diners.    However,  had decided that Friday was mine after my office work was done at the Grill.
Headed off East to Dunbar, stopped off at the the harbour where the tide was out and the local

fishermen were

getting some work done on their boats.    On my way out of Dunbar stopped to speak to a former Penicuik man who I knew from Penicuik Rugby Club days,  John Kirkhope.    Onwards alon the A1, and cut of to the tiny harbour at Cove, which is not all that easy to get to, so headed down in to Pease Bay where there is a caravan / holiday home site,  very nice in the sunshine.

Through the ford and then up the single track steep hill and turned left along towards Siccar Point, where in 1788 "Hutton's Unconformity" was discovered which proved the theories of the movement of the Earths various underlying plates - here at the point there is dramatic evidence of the plates coming together and being forced in different directions.  The cliffs here are a Geologists dream and they come from all parts of the world to see them.

  Near to the car park is the ruin of St Helen,s Chapel

Eventually found my way back onto the main road (  sat nav not working on the Steed of Steel,  wee wiring fault.
Lovely day by now so onwards through Coldingham and down into Eyemouth  where I stopped at the harbour for a roll and coffee.   Met a telephone engineer who originally lived in Penicuik, and whose father had been a manager in the former Valleyfield paper Mill until it closed.

Without the tide it kind of changes the look of things,  but a very interesting placeto visit , nice fresh seafood to be found everywhere along the harbour front.

Time pressing so onwards, into the countryside,  Ayton, Chirnside, and down to Duns where it was another roll and coffee at Border Bikes with Andy Mimms and his father at the workshop.   Big change in the weather compared to last week so I took the Westruther Road over the moors , through to Lauder, over the hill to Stow, south on the A7 to Bowland and then over onto the Galashiels - Glasgow road making for home via Walkerburn, Innerleithen and Peebles.   Home, feet up , jiggered.