Silver tops still wandering

Fife Ness to St Andrews. The most challenging part of the walk and tide dependant.

Rounding Fife Ness and facing into a brisk wind we set off to do the 12 miles to St Andrews. Tide times checked, sandwiches packed, waterbottles fully charged and maps memorised!

The terrain was rough with much upping and downing. But no less beautiful.

We got past the ‘nip’ points of the incoming tide and stayed safe and dry.

Wind was obviously a permanent feature. The trees and shrubs telling their own stories.

Bit of beach art.

Wind weathered rock formations.

The rock formations and ever changing geology makes me wish I knew so much more about the making of these landscapes. Well, winter and dark nights are on the way so when I am not arranging seaglass and pottery into ‘things’, maybe I should learn.

We had to walk inland and cross a gorge to get past this inlet. Very pretty but again, much uphilling!

Pretty impossible to do what we wanted to as the tide times were against us. We couldn’t get past the last of the tidal ‘nips’. We gave it a spirited try which resulted in very wet feet (me) and an unscheduled and sudden sit down for travel companion.

There is something very disappointing in having to retrace your steps. But stoical as ever we set off to find a pick up point. We sneaked through a very posh golf course and dashed back to base for a hot bath.

We will set off in the morning and cover the half mile or so to St Andrews that the North Sea prevented us from completing. We will do this well above the tide line. On the A917!

Today we walked in total around 14 miles, upping and downing. Not bad for a couple of ‘silvertops’!