Seafield Beach in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland

With the good weather earlier in the week I took the opportunity to pop down to Seafield Beach on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy, in Fife, Scotland.

Sunseekrs were out in force, either sitting on the beach or paddling in the sea.

Seafield beach is south of Kirkcaldy and you do get some great views of Kirkcaldy and Dysart.

As you can see the tide was out so people took advantage to go walking and wade into the sea.

The beach has an electronic display that tells you of the water quality from June to September and is current rated as Good water quality.

From the beach you can see the town's local football ground Raith Rovers.

There beach has a car park and picnic area, although there are no toilets, there is a Morrison's supermarket which does have toilet facilities and this is only a minutes walk from here.

Swinging round 180 degrees you see the remnants of Seafield harbour.

The beach is on the Fife Coastal Trail which is a great coastal walkway that you follow for miles and miles.

Going down onto the beach you can see how vast it is when the tide has gone out.

The sea is actually the Firth of Forth and across the water is Edinburgh. Many boats go up and down the estuary. There is also a shipyard and repair facilty at Methil, so you weill see many oil drilling platforms that are either eaiting to be towed away and scrapped or repaired.
There is the chemical plant and refinery at Grangemouth, so many chemical ships sail up and down the estuary.

Seafield used to have a sewage treatment plant and you can see various pipes visible at low tide.
It does make for some awesome shades of green with the seaweed and algae though.

I used to think that this was a seawall but it turns out it was most likely to have been an attempt at building a harbour in the 1800s. The project was doomed to failure as neighbouring harbours made sure it was never finished.

You can see the damage that the sea has been doing to this section of wall which is under the water at high tide.

The harbour wall is pretty impressive and the manmade blocks that were used are pretty darn big.

If you breathe in then you can find a way through the blocks to the other side.

This makes for some great shots through the blocks of Kirkcaldy.

The area is known for jellyfish and some of them do wind up dead up on the beach.

Once on the other side, the beach is rocky and in the distance you can see Seafield Tower that was built in the 1500s.

The coastal path takes right to the Tower and that will be the subject of a later post.

I hope you enjoyed my summer stroll along the sea, sand and rocks of Seafield beach in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland.

Thanks for reading and have yourself a great weekend.