Saturday 11 February 2012

You'll Never Starve...

In that wonderful film, 'Local Hero', Fulton Mackay, as the old beachcomber Ben Knox, states that if you own the right beach, you can live off it.

With a fine morning but the sun hidden behind high cloud, we took a short ramble along the Ormsaigbeg beach. The tide was falling, leaving behind its usual flotsam - seaweed, plastic boxes, lengths of driftwood plus a few of the sort of things old Ben Knox was referring to.

For a start, there was a creel with its buoy attached....

....then, if the beachcomber preferred something from the supermarket shelf, a nice steak.

1 comment:

  1. " Some hae meat and canna eat,
    And some wad eat that want it;
    But we hae meat, and we can eat,
    Sae let the Lord be thankit. "

    Springs to mind ! Looks like Tesco's Finest to me, also that the waters of the Sound of Mull allow ideal storage conditions.

    Fried or grilled :)

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