Glaisdale

Wednesday 15th may 2013:

Glaisdale moor:

We parked up the car in Glaisdale hall lane:

From Glaisdale hall lane we walked up toward the moor.

If you wanted to you could walk all the way to Danby however this would take you a couple of hours:

As we were having a evening walk we walked for about an hour and a quarter then turned round and strolled back so 2 hrs 30 in total. We hadn’t intended to walk quite so far but as the kids were all enjoying running, jumping and playing we walked further than we’d planned.

We didn't end up gotting back to the car until about 7:30pm.

Afterwards as everyone was feeling tired and it was later than planned we drove to Whitby and got something for dinner (a very rare treat) which we

ate at Sandsend in the car park.

This proved by chance to be even more lovely than usual as we were stood chatting by the sea wall chatting and looking at the waves Christina noticed a black shape jumping out of the waves far out to sea and shout ‘quick look I saw a really big black thing with a big tail’

We all stood and carefully watched and sure enough she was right and all four of us saw more than one large black shapes far out to sea with big tail splashing in and out of the water we easily stood and watched for a good 15 mins.

My husband thought it could be sea lions or seals but it seemed too big for that, the kids were determined they’d seen whales so we decided to research it further when we got home it really was a magical sight with the sun setting on the water whatever they were.

After researching we still aren’t sure as to what we saw if it was August or September it would certainly correspond with other whale sighting around Whitby however we found so much interesting information about marine life around Whitby and Sandsend that we’re going to put it altogether an write a blog about it. Click on: history and interesting facts about local places: Whales and marine life Whitby and Sandsend.

From

Dominique.