At the far end of Spittal beach, a stream comes out of the cliff. It is very red, probably because of iron in the rocks
I first noticed that these two shells had been dyed red by the water
then I saw these ones
and these ones
and even a golf ball stuck in a cleft of rock had turned red!
while I was taking the photos, Malcolm suddenly called out "watch your back". Usually he shouts this when I haven't noticed a big wave coming up behind me, but this time it was a little Jack Russell. I'm glad that I had finished taking photos of the shells on this little outcrop of rocks, because the dog ....... well, he did what boy dogs do!