Porty People and Places

A beautiful calm but cool morning on the beach.

One brave soul was on a four mile swim parallel with the shore.

The NLV Pole Star was at anchor off Musselburgh.

Jim, the beach tractor driver, was clearing up the remnants of last night's bonfire on the beach as a valedictory party for one of our young residents who leaves Porty for pastures new in Canada next week.

Ironcic that the weather is settling down now as the Fringe concludes and the Festival winds down. Three cruise liners are in the Forth today to allow their passengers a final festive fling. Dephin in Leith Docks, Ruby Princess at anchor at Queensferry, and Ocean Princess in Rosyth.

As I returned from the beach a United Airlines B757 whispered onto its final approach to EDI all the way from Philadelphia! If the Bardabunga volcano in Iceland erupts through the glacial ice the skies over here could be even quieter for a while.