The weather is so changeable at the moment – sunny one second, windy and bitterly cold the next. But that’s Spring in Scotland for you! And you can’t let it stop you from having adventures, including trips to the beach.
Primrose Cove is one of the closest wild beaches to us, a dramatic bowl of sandstone that is carpeted in purple heather in the summer months. The soft stone is sculpted by the sea into strange organic and artistic shapes – pools and channels carved out by the motion of smooth stones and boulders. If the water wasn’t icy, they’d make lovely paddle pools.
Luckily the boys are pretty hardy souls, and not put off by early Spring chill.
While they were playing on the beach, I sloped of to find some spots to plant some oak trees amongst the charred skeletons of gorse above the cliffs, where a few years ago an enormous wild-fire ripped through the dense thorny bushes.
Only now are young gorse plants regrowing, and my hope is that the new plants will guard and shield the young oaks from predators like rabbits and deer. And in another year or two it may be impossible to get into the area because it will overgrown again, so now feels like the time to try it.
The Nose... 
Posted on 13/03/2021 by Tom Allan
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