A quick stop at Saltwick Bay first thing, utilising the free parking just outside the Whitby Holiday Park, right on the cliff top where the path descends to the beach. We found a bit more jet, but rushed on to Runswick Bay as we wanted to get to Kettleness Sand - which is only accessible by walking in from Runswick Bay or Sandsend. There are ropes that can be used to gain access, but certainly not with a dog in tow! The tide was coming in, high tide late afternoon, but we wanted to be safe so it was a quick dash in and out - although there was nothing quick about slithering over some of the boulders!
At first the finds didn't look promising but on the way back when we knew the tide was ok, we were able to spend more time and found some good sheets of ammonites. Again the shale is highly friable, so there wasn't much to collect and other specimens were well embedded in larger blocks of stone.
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| Looking toward Kettleness Sand. |
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| Looking back towards Runswick Bay. |
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| Seal pup making his way to the sea. |
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| Single ammonites. |
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| Mussels. |
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| Belemnites - the bottom one is the largest so far. |
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| Ammonites - the picture at the bottom shows the unexposed layer of ammonites that goes through the rock. |
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| A spectacularly coloured, and highly delicate, shale slab full of fossils. |
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| Sheets of ammonites. |
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