Winter Wonderland?

Well, where did that come from?   Today has definitely been a day where the right clothes are needed.  As the sun goes down and it starts to darken up the beach has a distinctly chilly look to it.

I don't think that I've ever had a snowball fight on a beach before.  I still haven't.

The Wrong Clothes

Following on from yesterday today is one of those days where I may have had the wrong clothes on.  I think in the tourist brochures around the world this kind of weather at coastal resorts is referred to as "bracing".

Well today is a day to be braced!

It's also a day to be jacketed and hatted.  And gloved!

Obviously the last week was just to lull us into a false sense of security and tempt us to switch off the heating.  Well I won't fall for that one again.  

There's no such thing as bad weather.....

There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes!  ( I don't know who I stole this from but thanks whoever it was.)

Today is a great illustration of that.  It may look a bit rubbish to the uninitiated but today was a cracking day for a stroll.

As you can see even on a grey wet sort of day the Lighthouse still stands up there on the headlands.  The local wildlife were enjoying themselves too.  In fact they were enjoying themselves so much they flew out of the picture before I could press the button.  With the change to slightly bigger seas there have been sightings of the surfers back in the water along with the jet-skis flapping around doing what they do.  It's nice to see them back out there again.

Anyway I'm putting this up as my picture of the lighthouse following on from yesterday's post.  I'm still sorting through the hundreds of shots i received from you all yesterday.  ( Feel free to send more in....)

Lighthouse

I see that the grant the Covesea Lighthouse Community Company were seeking has been approved and the Lighthouse will soon become a hub for local tourism.  It certainly is one of the most striking locations in the region.

It's a building that dominates the cliff tops and is visible for miles around. ( Pretty handy for a lighthouse I hear you all cry.)

I was going to post my own picture of the lighthouse but then i thought that perhaps it was time for me to see what talents you all have with a camera.  So come on Lossiemouth (and beyond if you wish) let's be having your pictures of the lighthouse.  Let's have shots of the lighthouse in all weathers and light.  It always looks fabulous when the sun is setting in just the right place but i'm sure it could look just as spectacular from the right place in any weather.

So come on folks, get your snaps out!

Goldfinger, Goldmember and Gold........

There have been no sightings of bowler-hatted Korean wrestlers decapitating statues with their hats.  There have been no sightings of strange Dutch roller skating super criminals painting things gold.  There has however been a sighting of an Olympic Gold Medallist.

I'm sure this comes as no news to the people of Lossiemouth but it may be news to the wider world.

There are not many of these across the country I'm delighted to say that there is one in Lossiemouth.  Now the big question of the day...  Who was this postbox painted for?

Update:

We have a winner (well a correct answer ) so thanks Shiela for giving us the answer.

Heather Stanning. Who with Helen Glover won the first gold medal for Britian.

Look Out

Another gloriously sunny and warm day up on the Costa Del Lossiemouth, ( far too sunny to be sat in-front of a computer.. harrumph!) I can hear the Spanish tourist board grinding their teeth in envy.

 A pretty easy one for you all today.  This picture has been taken from a position up on high.  Can you name the spot?

This location looked, until relatively recently, slightly different when it was given a more modern look and a bit of a tidy up.

There will be a follow up posting later if ( when ) someone identifies the place.

Ok, here we go, this will give it away I'm sure.

I didn't want to make it too easy so I've blanked out the name. ( for now )

Harbour Views

Wandering around the town today I stumbled across this very interesting house.  The tower gives it some great views over the harbour and beyond and it's location means that it would have to be very stormy indeed for the water to get to it.  ( even more stormy than earlier in the year )

I'm sure you all know exactly where it is and what it was.  Let's be hearing from you.

Wildlife Rocks!

I'm sure there is a whole raft of history displayed in the lines on this rock, there are probably wise and educated people that would be able to tell a great deal from it, I thought that it looked mildly interesting.    According to some scientists many rocks date back to before the signing of the Magna Carta and they can live for many hundreds of years in the wild.  I can certainly see how something this intricate would take a long time to put together at any rate.

It is funny what you notice when you roam the place with a camera in your pocket that you wouldn't normally( i've mentioned this before I know), I don't want to spoil you all and throw all the pictures up at once though.

It would appear that I'm going to have to keep working on the webcam, it doesn't seem to be feeding the pictures to the web automatically so the rolling pictures will have to be updated manually.   (unless any of you fine people are computery and know of some good software to make it work )  I would of course prefer it to simply add in each new photo as it takes them but that doesn't seem to be an option at the minute.  I'll keep rooting around.

Web Cam. What Web Cam.

Well I have the web cam connected to a computer and it's looking out over the East beach, so hopefully the wildlife will frolick happily on the beach for the amusement of us all. It's been a while since I've seen a seal basking on the beach but there are herons ( I think they're herons, they look herony/ish)  fishing away quite regularly.

All I have to do now is work out how to connect the pictures it's picking up into the blog.  I won't be giving you a streaming video as I think that would test the patience of my ISP but I will be looking to set it up to give shots at regular periods.

I was outwitted by technology this morning ( forgot to charge camera ) so was unable to get an early morning shot.  I did get a picture on my wanderings this morning however, I must admit I can't recall ever having noticed it before.  I'm sure I must have it's just never registered before.  I guess when you wander around with a camera you tend to actually look at things rather than just glance around as you go along.

Anyway I wonder if any of you know what this is ( obviously it's a lion, I mean the story behind it ) and where it is.

Over to you Lossie.

Midday on the beach.  There are a few folks out and about there as you can see ( the little dots ) and it's a lovely day to be out there.  On days like these it's almost hard to believe that only a few weeks back the water was trying its' hardest to knock on the front doors of the houses along the front.

The sun had just popped up over the horizon ( honest... ) sadly the clouds were hiding it.  It was still a lovely fresh morning with very few seagulls squawking madly at each other.  I do wish they would learn a new tune.

I was shocked when the webcam that I ordered from Amazon yesterday was delivered this morning.  I shall try and get it set up as soon as possible and work out how to link it into the blog so that it can pop up fresh photos of the East Beach here.  Who knows it may capture some sightings of the sea lions/seals ( I am rubbish at identifying things, all help gladly accepted ) that visit the beach here or the surfers who seem to not care one little bit how cold it is when they go into the water.

Well that's a little frustrating right off from the start.  I'm normally a Firefox browser user but have had all sorts of issues in setting up the blog on that so I tried Internet Explorer and that wasn't a whole lot better.  I've now ended up on Google Chrome and everything is working nicely for me.   So if you looked at the site a little earlier and saw things all over the place it was probably during one of my wrestling matches with either Firefox or IE.

Anyway I think I finally have things set up.  In the coming days and weeks I will hopefully be adding more things to the site such as a rolling slideshow of all the daily photos and if all goes well and I can manage it (without causing a major computer explosion)  I will be setting up a webcam to give regular shots looking out over the East Beach from a very handy raised viewpoint. I'm not sure what the time delay between shots will be yet, it will be very much a suck-it-and-see thing.

I'm all psyched up ready to get the sunrise tomorrow.  Hopefully it'll be another clear morning and not so cold that I decide to photoshop the East Beach bridge onto the Copocobana.


I have also set up the Twitter account @lossiebeach get linked up and let me know what should go on the blog.

Welcome to Lossiemouth Beach views

I'd like to welcome you to the view from Lossiemouth beach here in Moray.

This blog will be a bit of a mish-mash really.  I'm going to be posting some (hopefully) great shots of the Lossiemouth area to show the rest of the world just what a spectacular place this can be.

I'll also be looking to post on topics that you suggest, or serve as a platform for you to post your articles or ideas.   If you have a story or subject that you'd like to bring to the world then let me know.