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[andrewducker]

Spent today with Lilian on the beach at Cramond, which is lovely.  I recommend that all you Edinburgh people go there next time the weather's nice.  We wandered halfway along the causeway to the island, but the sea wasn't going out quite fast enough for us to make it all the way before we had to head home.

Evening was spent at purelyskindeep and rainstorm's flat, playing cards.  Lovely people, don't get to see them enough.

Now off to bed, completely knackered...

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

What, you'd never been to Cramond before? Did you have tea in the Cramond Bistro? An essential part of any visit to Cramond, in my opinion.

The island is lovely, but I never keep track of the tides enough to know whether I'm going to be able to get out to the island on any visit. It's easier to get out since they built a proper causeway, though.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I KNEW the causeway was different!!!!

When did they widen it then?

And why oh why isn't there a new ferryman hired?

We walked about halfway out as the water receded from high tide - quite surreal really, never done that. Two cyclists plunged ahead of us and made it to the island with water almost covering their wheels.
But Andy was too wussy to take his boots off and wade (I had cut off jeans on and sandals off :-)

WE're thinking of a picnic to the island sometime I look up the tides :-)

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I KNEW the causeway was different!!!!

Well, yes! It used to be just a big old pipe that had been concreted over - better than walking on muck or quickmud, for sure, but rough and bitty.

I don't know exactly when they built the new causeway. I think it must have been sometime between 1998 and 2001, because that's when I wasn't going out to Cramond at all, when before that I was going fairly often - couple of times a year, anyway - and the new causeway was there the first time I visited when I came back from Reading.

But Andy was too wussy to take his boots off and wade (I had cut off jeans on and sandals off :-)

I was out on the island once when the tide came in, and I had to take my jeans and sandals off to wade back out (well, it was that or sit on the bus going home in sopping jeans - the water came up to my thigh at one point mid-channel). There was a nice boy-girl couple standing staring out over the causeway having a quiet argument about the necessity of wading back across. I felt very fortunate to be on my own and having, therefore, to bow to immediate necessity rather than waste time in arguing about it...