Category: Cattersby Sands

  • How to Dress in the Water—Edwardian Advice from the Shoreline

    How to Dress in the Water—Edwardian Advice from the Shoreline

    Cattersty Sands looked perfect this morning. The sun was out, the beach was almost empty, and the North Sea glittered like it wanted to be inviting. It was not. Nobody so much as dipped a toe in. I had half expected to see someone bobbing about in neoprene—open-water swimming being all the rage now. Not…

  • Cattersty Sands—From Fretful Sea to Fragile Foam

    Cattersty Sands—From Fretful Sea to Fragile Foam

    A visit to the sea-side. Back at home, we had woken up to a wet but mild morning. However, the scene at Cattersty Sands was a different world. A sea fret unfurled before us, though glimpses of blue peered above sporadically. Typically, the surf maintains a steady rhythm, a predictable ebb and flow. Yet on…

  • Wreck of a buoy, Cattersty Sands

    Wreck of a buoy, Cattersty Sands

    Cattersty Sands near Skinningrove was selected as the 25th best beach in Britain according to the Telegraph, so take what you want from that. On a wet and very windy Easter Monday, it was absolutely deserted, apart from a handful of dog walkers. This wreck is an old buoy, supposedly washed up in the 1950s…