Different Piece of Beach

Last Saturday, as the sun was dipping towards the western horizon, F decided that instead of our usual plod down the rickety stairs we would walk round the coast a short way, past the art cafes and sit on the rocks below the basketball court that juts out on a promontory between the coast road and the sea.

We get a different view from there - above the headland on the RHS of our little inlet with Salamina in the background, - below the rocks that lead down to the sea.  Different plants, lower, scrubby stuff, mostly browned off at this time of year.
Dry as a chip

The green is capers

Caper leaves and dead dry stuff


Exploded caper berries, showing off their eye-catching insides, and throwing their seeds wide on the seemingly inhospitable rocks; inhospitable to all by the capers.
A Barbara Hepworthy rock

Rocks and more rocks and more capers 

Southern suburbs with arty overlay

Rocks close up, sort of aggregate rock, fun colours and texture - spot the button 
Minoan Ferry (probably from Crete)

You probably can't tell in these photos but that mountain on Salamina has a top just like a picture book volcano.
Me with patio feature rolled out on my backpack.  Those rocks are hot, hot, hot .......

Spot the posh yacht in my background.  We watched it coming up the Gulf with setting sun reflecting off its mast, the colour sliding up and down as it rolled gently on the sea surface.

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  1. Great travelogue, thank you. Capers, you say? My favorite.

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    1. F likes to eat them and frequents a deli where she buys them by the lunch box full, dredged out of a big bucket. We would like to see so many more growing on our rocky beach. It could be verdant with their waxy leaves, even when everything else is like tinder. Unfortunately council workers indiscriminately cut them off once a year when they clear the area of the dry organic material that poses a fire risk.

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  2. Thank you so much for showing us your lovely beach scenes. Oh but everything is SO dry. Even here in NE Scotland it's becoming increasingly hard to find a satisfactorily muddy ditch.
    Toodle-oo!
    Nobby.
    PS Gail and I love the idea of a Barbara Hepworthy rock!

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    1. Very dry on those rocks. No satisfying mud here at this time of year we are afraid Nobby. We have quite a few Hepworthy rocks. That one just happened to be right beside us. Paw smacks Mr T

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  3. It looks very peaceful and starkly beautiful Mr T.

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  4. Hari Om
    Well, Tigger, I spent more than 87 seconds enlarging and magnifying and searching every patch, but I failed to find a buttion (with the query are we looking for a shirt button? In which case it might be bottom left tucked into the hole in the more orange-y patch...)

    I loved visiting this part of the coast with you and F - thanks for taking us along! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx

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    1. Top rightish there is a little squarish stone with 2 dots that look like the holes in a button. F's eyes seem to be programmed to see buttons. She sees them in my cat treats too! You could make a really tricky jigsaw out of a picture like that one. Furrings and purrings Mr T

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    2. Hari OM
      AHA! easy when one knows what one is looking for! Yxx

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  5. I have heard of people eating capers, and wonder if these are edible? I like both views, but lean towards the rocky view most. it really is beautiful and wow on the front porch for paws. what a super photo of you Tigger. I see you said stark, I love stark and this does fit that description.

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    1. There are a couple of toxic varieties - we wouldn't know them. Wiki tells you everything you need to know about capers. The flowers are pretty so we wouldn't steal the buds.

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  6. Wow wild capers for harvest.
    Have you tried to pickle your own from them?
    Some beauty pics. Thanks for sharing

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    1. They are so cheap to buy, and so time consuming to pick enough on our beach, that it's better to let them flower and throw seeds.

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  7. Summer does get very hot and dry, I've never tried wild capers though but I like the ones in a jar, might see what Bruno thinks of them.

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