24th July Hawthorn beach and Shippersea Bay

Left home 05:30 and drove to Easington, parked and walked along the clifftop path to Hawthorn beach, breakfast while

waiting for the tide to go out , to get to Shippersea Bay

so had an hour walking Hawthorn beach

came back and thought the tide might have gone out enough so set off

a couple of coves and headlands I'd to wait another 15 minutes for the tide to go out some more
before arriving at Shippersea Bay, looking South

and looking back to the last headland I came round

The Bear wanted to go to the Sculpture Park first

Then it was 4 hours walking up and down the beach with a stop for lunch

Set off back to beat the incoming tide

Hawthorn beach comes back into view

Spent another hour walking the beach

before climbing up the gorge under the railwy viaduct

Then walked back along the cliff top footpath passing Shippersea Bay where the tide had come in

Walked back to Easington where I was glad of a flask of cold water in the car, it had been a hot day. Drove home and I don't know if it was because it was a Friday but there were some speed lunatics on the A19, A61 and A59. Washed the finds this morning

Just thought I'd share, comments welcome

Sea Glass Mobile

Drilled holes in some of the Parton Bay sea glass (from last post) x3 in a few, x2 in most and x1 in the ones at the bottom, then tied them together using waxed harness thread

Beachcombing a Secret Beach

Seaham and Shippersea Bay Sea Glass

and a 'Dragon Egg'

Woodlice Like Fish Food

Woodlice like Sweet Potato

A Woodlouse is a crustacean from the monophyletic suborder Oniscidea within the Isopods. They are called that from being found in old wood. The first Woodlice were marine isopods which are presumed to have colonised land in the Carboniferous, a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period 358.9 million years ago, to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 million years ago

They tend to hide away in daylight but will come out to forage in 'blue light', this is fine for observing them but not for photographing. If you turn a white light on they all scurry back into hiding. They are very well programmed to respond in certain ways to stimuli in their environment, but do not "know" that they are Woodlice as opposed to anything else, nor do they make conscious decisions. They simply do not have the neural structures and apparatus that is required for such things. If they did think, they might have thought that there was a 'Flash of Lightning' last night !

as I fired the camera flash, as they ate their favorite meal of Sweet Potato

Ants like Honey

Went out to check the post box this morning and there was a lethargic Bumble bee on the drive
went in and came out with a drop of honey on a cocktail stick put the drop in front of it and straight away it's proboscis was into it. Pit stop for fuel ? went back in for the camera, came back out and the Bee had 'Buzzed' off and the pit stop crew were cleaning up.

just thought I'd share