This weekend the weather has been wet, wet, wet, and windy. It has not daunted a lot of brave souls from taking a walk on the beach. Most of them had dogs, so maybe it was the dogs taking the owners for a walk.
Unusually a large tree trunk has been washed up it's almost totally covered with spume. The spume was really quite a remarkable feature. Large amounts of foamy bubbles spread all over the beach. Wherever there was a little bit of material standing above the surface of the sand, the spume gathered round it. This log had a distinct leeward and windward side.
Where there wasn't anything for the spume to stack up against, it just blew all over the place. In this photo, if you look carefully, you can see some airborne!
And here you can see tracks that balls of foam have made as they're blown across the sand.
The next day the wind had dropped, only a bit! But sufficiently for some of the gulls to return to the shoreline to see what pickings they could get from the foamy strand. They didn't look too impressed.
