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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd there’s the prettier bit which granted isn’t as good for sand castles as you follow the coast to the west.<\/p>\n
There are signs warning of the danger of cliff falls, but honestly it looked about the same to me.\u00a0 In fact I was able to identify all the rocks I used to clamber around on when I was 6 or 7.\u00a0 This is the rock where we used to sit and have the lunch mum would always have packed.<\/p>\n This part of the beach is really nice when the tide is out.\u00a0 Honestly I had no idea when the tide would be in or out, and got lucky turning up in the early afternoon, it’s really quite pretty even on an overcast day.\u00a0 The weed covered rocks extend for miles in the other direction, almost like an interlocking carpet in places.<\/p>\n Birds are cool.\u00a0 While I was poking around in the rock pools trying to find a crab to photograph (I failed), this guy came wandering past.<\/p>\n Heading back to the main part of the town I stood for a bit contemplating the sea with a friend.<\/p>\n This was entirely unexpected.\u00a0 Ducks having a day out.<\/p>\n A bath is always a good way to wash the salt off.<\/p>\n I’d decided I wanted to feed some seagulls.\u00a0 Honestly this usually pisses off the locals who can consider them pests, but there are two points worth noting here.\u00a0 One – I’m depressed and feeding animals cheers me up.\u00a0 Two – I don’t care.\u00a0 I went to the only open chip shop I could find, which I should have taken a photo of, and bought an open tray of chips.\u00a0 This proved to be a huge mistake.<\/strong>\u00a0 The gulls saw the open tray immediately, and I was harassed within a few feet by a growing flock of seagulls.\u00a0 I saw a bandstand in the middle of the green and made a break for it.\u00a0 Luckily I was able to divert them a few times by throwing a chip or two in the opposite direction.\u00a0 Onlookers were amused by this.<\/p>\n Once in the safety of the bandstand they started circling it like some kind of shambolic homage to The Birds.\u00a0 It was perfect for feeding them though, and they seemed to calm down when they realised that I really was going to throw all the chips at them.\u00a0 They started hovering and catching them in mid air, which was amazing fun.\u00a0 Unfortunately I couldn’t switch to wide angle and capture just how many there were by this point because that would have meant putting the tray of chips down, unprotected.<\/p>\n They only stopped following me when I visibly put the empty tray in a bin, and immediately flew away.\u00a0 Friends of convenience.<\/p>\n You can’t go to the beach without checking out an arcade, and it was pretty depressing.\u00a0 The arcade in the photo above used to be a smaller wooden structure, and I remember it had cool things inside like a Buck Rogers, a Robocop, and an ancient electro-mechanical car driving game with the road printed on a large rolling drum and displayed via a projector.\u00a0 Now it’s full of fruit machines, coin pushers, cranes and redemption games.<\/p>\n Having won a thousand tickets on various games of “skill” and finding that all I could exchange them for was a Frozen stationary set or a One Direction bag, I sunk about \u00a35 into a crane trying to win a Triceratops toy.\u00a0 I failed.\u00a0 However, I did find a coin pusher with a prize which was obviously close to falling off.\u00a0 Pushers are rigged of course just like everything else there and you need the right combination of thickness of coins near the edge plus lightness of prize.\u00a0 Fortunately, no coin pusher has ever defeated me.\u00a0 In keeping with todays theme – birds.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n