At last....

....another Sandside sunset.

It's been so long since I last saw the sun dip down below the hills across the Kent estuary. Weeks and weeks of cloud have given way to blue skies and calm water, the promised Indian Summer is here.

After the excitements of yesterday watching salmon leap and chasing a new bird species, today was quiet. After work I took Bob the Cat for his check-up after his injuries last week. I needn't have gone though, he has been bouncing about the last couple of days as if nothing had happened - a complete contrast to the limping, bleeding, sorry-for-himself moggie of Friday.

Linking to yesterday's salmon leap - for which thank you for all the wonderful comments, stars and hearts - somewhere out there in the channel, the next batch of salmon are making their way up the estuary to enter the River Kent, to run the rapids and leap the falls and weirs as they head for their spawning grounds. Odd to think that they make the run to create the next generation, and then their life cycle complete, expire in the rivers where they were born. Last year, a little later in the season, Matt and I found huge dead salmon drifting downstream below Kendal, too sad a sight to blip.