20/11/2024
🩵 Fraisthorpe Beach 🩵
One of our favourite things to do is sit on the deck early in the morning with a hot cuppa listening to the waves. The kids love the beach and we're in the perfect spot being only a short walk to the front. The hardest choice is whether to walk left along South Beach to the harbour, or right, past all of the WW2 military fortifications and beach defences.
On many occasions, we choose to turn right towards Fraisthorpe Beach. It never gets old, chatting about the war and our grandparents stories and watching the kids hop along the sunken rocks, trying to spot life in the rock pools. Making castles with moats on the warmer days and collecting buckets of cool shells or pretty rocks on the colder ones. We sadly spotted a washed up dolphin once and spent the whole walk chatting to our 9 year old about beach/sea pollution, the ocean food chain and reasons mammals may get beached. Every day is a school day, even more so on holiday 🌊
We absolutely love chilling in The Cow Shed Cafe & Takeaway at Fraisthorpe Beach afterwards with a red hot brew, feeling like we've deserved a bit of something delicious after all the steps! We usually opt for cake or savoury bakes as they're instantly tempting!
Although we don't have a dog, it's great that the beach and cafe are dog friendly. We love meeting pooches and their owners, finding out where they're from and giving them a fuss, watching them live their best life bounding around the stretch of sand 🐕🐶
On the way back we usually take the high path, past the fields, the bunkers and the yacht club, and, if we're lucky, run down onto the beach to see a boat launch. A stroll on the beach really is underrated, and simply one of life's small pleasures. Counting down the days until we're back 🌊⛵️
