I’ve blogged about Solitaire before, she’s the biggest pipe layer in the world and a few weeks ago she was joined by her sister ship the Audacia. They’ve both been coming and going every now and again but most of the time they’ve been anchored in the Firth of Forth.
The first time I saw one of these very strange looking pipe layer ships I was amazed at how weird it looked, it was the Solitaire, a Swiss army knife of a ship and I really thought it was quite ugly looking but I’ve now changed my mind completely and I love all those bits hanging off it, I think it’s quite elegant looking. In fact when we’ve been driving back along the Orrock Quarrry road from Edinburgh and get to the spot on the road when you can see the Forth, I was hurrah-ing whenever she came back into view. What can I say – but I live a quiet life!
Yesterday I happened to be on the beach at Pathhead in Kirkcaldy and took the chance to snap them again, and I’m glad that I did because last night Audacia sailed off for Haifa, Israel. I wonder how long it’ll take her to get there?
Further along the beach I came across a mini stonehenge construction, I don’t know who built it but they’re my kind of people. Why stick with sandcastles when you can branch out to something more solid!
The other photos I took were mainly of rock formations on the foreshore which I intend to put on Pinterest – if I ever get around to joining it!
I love the mini-hinge! When we went to Stonehenge – back in the pre-digital age- I shot a full 2 rolls of film just there alone. I found it very spiritual and was mesmerized. Husband’s comment: “Big bunch of rocks there.”
Pinterest is a great black hole for Time. Worse than Facebook or even YouTube. I get sucked in and find the most wonderous recipes and crafty ideas and whoosh! — an hour’s gone that I’ll never get back.
Pearl,
Well – I suppose he is right, but he’s a scream too! Margaret @Books Please recently blogged about her childhood visit to Stonehenge, before it was all fenced off. I’ve not been yet but they are doing a lot of work in the area soon so that the nearby road is diverted elsewhere and the experience should be closer to what it would have been in the past. We’ll go when it’s all finished I think.
I joined Facebook recently but haven’t really used it, I’m thinking that Pinterest will be quite good for recipes and the like, the whole internet is a big time gobbler!
The Internet does seem to be a voracious time gobbler, but it makes my life so much easier!
Stonehenge was fenced off by the time I got there, and more’s the pity. I only got to see it from a distance, but what an impact it had!
Just realized the other day that we had never ridden the double-decker hop on/hop off bus in Edinburgh! We’ve done it in other cities and loved it, so we hope to remedy that deficiency soon…
Pearl,
I’m hoping that they will let you get closer when they re-vamp the whole area around Stonehenge.
I’ve never done the Edinburgh bus tours either but my sister has and she really enjoyed it/them. I don’t know if I fancy being in an open topped bus in Edinburgh in October though!