Then the Sun Burst Through the Clouds

8.9C with occasional bright spells and some short showers. Light breeze.

The weather forecast indicated rain from mid morning so Maeve the Deerhound and I went for a walk not long after 9am. We walked down the road to Westhaven then along the beach towards Easthaven. Where the people had been gathered round the bone yesterday there was nothing. The tide had washed all signs of any search away. There was a blue plastic barrel on the sand and only a ragged strip of police tape hanging loosely from the innermost channel marker post. The tide was well out.

Maeve and I continued along the beach for a while and I picked up a few pieces of ceramic as we went. We turned round at Craigmill burn, which was had much more water than usual flowing out across the beach, and came back along the sands. The small line of dunes at the back of the beach has been badly eroded by the recent stormy high tides. Back at Westhaven I went to photograph a long piece of seaweed hanging from the channel marker post with the triangle on top. Then the sun burst through the clouds and lit up the whole beach. I grabbed some shots before the brightness faded.

I found an update on yesterdays story on the Dundee Courier's website:
TheCourier.co.uk
Cordon set up after bone found on Westhaven beach
6 January 2014 9.48am.

The discovery of an animal bone sparked a police alert at Westhaven beach on Sunday.
A member of the public reported what they thought was a human forearm on the shoreline near Carnoustie.
A cordon was set up at around 11.50am while officers awaited the arrival of a forensics expert from Dundee University.
The area remained sealed off until 3pm when it was ascertained the bone was not human.


The police would be have been quick to act since their experiences of 2008 when a head was found on a beach in Arbroath and later body parts were found in a suitcase in the harbour. That story lead to the conviction of two Lithuanian men for the murder of a Lithuanian woman in a flat in Brechin. Evidence included CCTV footage of the two men on a bus from Brechin to Arbroath with a plastic bag containing the severed head and hands !