A return to Stones from the Sky

 Barry and I  were really keen to return to Sannick Beach and look for further carvings in the rocks. We checked out low tide and headed back one day few weeks ago - luckily the weather was somewhat more clement, and the midges were non-existent! Made for a more enjoyable time of it.

We were probably (actually definitely) over-confident. Having read about there being maybe twenty more carvings, we absolutely felt we would find a heap when we searched the rocks at the other end of the beach. 

We started at the end of the beach and this is the area we were searching.

Keeping in mind they only appear at low tide, we were hugging the edges and clambering across wet rocks precariously.

Looking back, we had reached this far from the cliff and not seen a single one.

My fear was as the tide seemed to be turning quite quickly, that they were out there on the real edge where  I would not venture...

Barry spotted this wet rock and we think can just make out some numbers on it.

But we were really, really almost to the sand when I did that turn around, fuzzy up your eyes and scan, scan, scan. Suddenly this huge rock popped up!

And yes, there were words! And the carving was similar to the first one we found.

One of the gob-smacking things for me was that the carving appeared to have been done upside down, given the way the rock was resting. I can't honestly believe that somebody could have managed that, so we came to the view that the wild and heavy seas had probably moved the rock at some point.

It was almost impossible to photograph it well and I feel as if I only managed fragments.

But you can see that the carving was just as beautiful as before.

To make ourselves feel a bit better after finding one, not twenty more carvings, we went back to see if we could re-discover the first one, and we did!

Chuffed we were. But as you can see, the tide was will on the turn compared to when we saw it first here, and we would have had trouble getting close to photograph it this time around. We are fairly sure it was something to do with our first visit being near a full moon, so the tide was actually at its almost lowest.

We planned to get back a third time, but the tides, time and weather were against us. I had hoped to get some better photos and close ups of the writing on this second large rock to make the transcription better.

But there is always next time, and in between I can keep trying to decipher what this rock says!

So far I have:

8 lines

1. Let

2. (Open) all my

3. 

4. (then place)         upon

5.                    my ashes (throw)

6. Lord since thou knows    here all these (alon)

7. I'm hopeful once             recollect

8. And confident                 with                 the just

Feel free to join me in the quest!