(349) Lookout

The weather was much better this morning than recently, with clear skies and sunshine, so I took the flying camera down to Pathhead Sands to see what I could capture. I managed a quick pass over Kirkcaldy harbour, back along the beach, and a look at the seawall at Ravenscraig Park before cloud moved in again and blocked the sunshine. The main blip is a vertical view of the small lookout tower that is part of the sea wall and the extra is an oblique view of the same. The Historic Environment Scotland website provides the following information about the tower: Early 19th century. Small, circular, conical-roofed lookout tower adjoining rubble-coped rubble sea-defence walls at extreme angle directly above shoreline. Squared rubble with ashlar margins and stone slab roof. Round-headed doorway to N, large gunloops to S, E and W. The tower forms part of the sea wall overlooking the Forth. Ravenscraig Park was gifted to the community by Sir Michael Nairn in 1929. It will have served also as a garden folly/gazebo within the park.