Alnmouth is where the river Aln meets the sea. When the tide is in it assumes lake like proportions but in reality the river itself is quite puny for most of its length. It gets enhanced as it flows around Alnwick Castle Pastures with a couple of weirs. A run timed right and you can quite easily run across the river to the other side where 5 miles of un-interrupted beach take you down to Warkworth. The river is pretty shallow at low tide as it makes its way across the sand.
That is so beautiful Neil I yearn to run on a Northumberland beach again. I was only telling Robyn today just how magical it is up there. Be sure you will have to endure more visits from me in due course
You are so fortunate to have all that nearby... I'm so jealous!
mickthemaverick wrote: 22 Aug 2023, 20:52
It looks like the bird scarer my uncle used to use at his allotment. Makes a hell of a bang but not popular with the housing estate across the road!!
It is indeed a bird scarer, although I'm sure the wind and rain we have had recently have ruined more of the crop than the birds. Odd though some fields are perfect, not a hint of the weather damage. I didn't realise they used propane gas to make the bang.
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Bring a picture of a blackberry to join the August 23rd 2023 POTD fruit collection, they are in profusion just now well ahead of the traditional autumnal "Blackberry Week" half-term holiday of times gone by
There's a cracker of a crop of blackberries down in Somerset this year... I ate plenty during my time there this weekend... The ones around where Alasdair lives are very fine...
Must be all the fertiliser they get from the cows and sheep...
, nice one of the photographer.
I yearn to run on a Northumberland beach again. I was only telling Robyn today just how magical it is up there. Be sure you will have to endure more visits from me in due course 
