Autumn Old Tidal Bathing Pool On History Visit To Cellardyke East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video clip, of the sight and sounds of the old tidal bathing pool on the coast of the fishing village of Cellardyke on ancestry visit to the coast of the East Neuk of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. I spent many happy days here as a child growing up in Cellardyke, The pools contain water even if the tide is out. The swimming pool was once known as The Cardinal's Steps after Cardinal Beaton of St Andrews who had a seaside residence here in the 16th century. It was developed into a formal bathing pool in the 1930s by local volunteers. The sea air would be rather bracing, the water not much warmer than freezing and the chance of swallowing a lungful of salty seawater extremely high. Long before heated and indoor swimming pools arrived, generations of hardy Scots learned to swim in Scotland’s coastal tidal pools. Interest these in days tidal pools is thought to have been sparked both by a resurgence in interest in wild swimming in Scotland, plus a wave of nostalgia for a simpler age when summer holidays were spent closer to home. Tidal pools cropped up all around the Scottish coast and waters, including in Dumfries and Galloway. The UK’s most northerly pool, in Scalloway in Shetland, was bulldozed in 1993 to make way for a car park. The Fife Coastal Walking Path goes through Cellardyke and runs from the Forth Estuary in the south, to the Tay Estuary in the north and stretches for 117 miles. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Meteorological Autumn ior Fall s different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30. The equinox at which the sun approaches the Southern Hemisphere, marking the start of astronomical Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The time of this occurrence is approximately September 22. @tourscotland #scotland #autumn #shorts All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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