To Gullane Bents

A freezing beach run at dawn followed by a bracing “Ne’er Day +1” walk from Aberlady to Gullane Bents*. East Coast buses facilitate countless perambulatory permutations with their frequent services.

The views were crystal clear to The Isle of May (and beyond). Two redundant oil rigs haunted the Fife coast, an Emirates Boeing 777 nonchalantly coasted in from Dubai and half a dozen Sanderling surpassed their own over cranked choreography!

Home via Longniddry Bents replete with the online encyclopaedia’s derivation of that Scots word - Bents* .

* a strong coarse variety of grass of a reedy or rush-like character (found on moorland or links); a place where such grass grows; a sandy hillock or a stretch of open ground covered with bent grass; a (grassy) slope or hillside .