Date: Friday, 1 October, 2010, 6:23
Harbour Home
Dunbar Harbour consists of two Harbours, the Victoria and the Cromwell.
Guest, friends from France , invited us to an autumn afternoon trip. Nivard was interested about the new 30 minute Tennis Court in Dunbar .
The first attraction in a seaside town must be the sea.
All these years, the Church of Our Lady of the Seas has been my stopping spot, and it faces the entrance to the harbour.
On this occasion, our friends from France looked beyond my short sighted idea of the harbour. Charles, driving, continued down through the alley ways into the harbour.
The view unfolded to me two glorious harbours.
The newer, 1882, Victoria Harbour opens on to the old Harbour (Cromwell), accessed through an Open-Up Bridge , as we came to them.
Instinctively I went to the edge of the pier. The seagulls gaggled and strutted waiting for food. To someone I pointed beneath at the large seal attending to our voices. He pulled out a camera for a picture. He was a German tourist.
The place was alive with interesting people at this surprising late season, visitors literally lingering and enjoying the atmosphere and scene.
For some reason we gathered along the quayside and clustered around a charming lady. As I joined the company, and caught her conversation I asked, “Are you a Guide or just love the place?” She was doing well but this opened the sluice gates as she warmed to her account of the Harbour and the life of the place. She regaled her with the folklore of the fishing, sailing and tourist fraternity and into the history of the place.
In this meeting, we learned more from her knowledge and her familiarity with the Dunbar Harbour Trust and the Lifeboats Charity than I heard of in the fifty years of ‘knowing’ Dunbar .
We followed her directions and went to explore the Old Harbour and took photographs.
Pat went to bring her camera from the car. The photos she took help to make a souvenir of a memorable Dunbar visit.
We appreciated our friends from France for coming to show the wonders of our own local seaside Dunbar .
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