Beaches and singing seals.

Sunday 7th August 2011
 A bit overcast and cool today so of course we went to the beach at No4 barrier.
Weather doesn't seem to matter to children if they have sand to play with. The rain kept off all morning though and in the afternoon Babs, Harry and I went down to Bu Sands on the other side of Burray. There were a few light showers but not enough to stop such intrepid souls as ourselves.

 There were plenty of rock pools along the side of the beach towards Burray Ness but either there wnothing in any of them or we were to slow to catch or notice whatever was in them. Harry however seemed to be happy with a net full of seaweed.


While there may have been nothing in the rock pools, there were loads of seals out on some of the rocks in the sea. Some of them were singing and it is easy to understand how people used to think that somehow seals could change into people and back again. It is especially spooky if you hear them singing when it is foggy and you can just hear their voices drifting in from the sea. Of such are legends of mermaids and selkies made.