This is what we saw when we got to the esplanade in Kirkcaldy a couple of days ago, so we decided not to brave the actual esplanade, just in case we got wheeched into the sea by a particularly big wave. We opted for walking along by the inner wall next to the road instead.

As you can see the sea wall is badly in need of repair and in fact there is work ongoing at the moment, it’s going to take about two years to complete it I think. This is the Firth of Forth, just as it turns into the North Sea, straight ahead is Denmark I think.

The sea wall was built between 1922 and 24 and the work was done to give employment to men who were unemployed after the First World War, it’s quite depressing to think that we have the same problems with unemployment now. I think that the only time there has been full employment here was in those glory days of the 1960s.

The actual sea was almost a flat calm until about 10 feet out from the sea wall, when the waves all started to fight with each other, then exploded onto the wall.

Well you get the idea of what the sea was like but you can never capture it in a photo, for one thing you don’t have the accompanying noise, or the salty spray in your face. I must figure out how to work the video bit of my camera, reading the instructions would probably help!