This was placed with permission of the RSPB. At the Millom end of the sea wall, also known as the outer barrier, lies a small inlet known locally as The Rocks for fairly obvious reasons and it is on the Duddon Estuary which is a place of A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for it's wildlife, fauna and flora.
I first learned to swim here and when the tide is out, there are two rocks covered in seaweed and they are known as black rock as opposed to the mainland adjacent to it being limestone, it is known as white rock.
When the tide is out around black rock is a large pond known as the pothole, as kids we were told it was bottomless and not to go in, so as kids we obviously did the opposite. And it wasn't bottomless it was about ten feet deep. We used to fish in it. collect crabs, periwinkles, welks and mussells but only the ones in the water not exposed to the air at low water. We made a frame with a net attached, cast it out into the pothole and dredged it back in collecting shrimps. This also dredged up small fish and small eating crabs which we put back. There was a time we were doing this when a tourist came over to watch and said in a rather posh voice, 'Oh I say, nothing can summount the ultillisation of local resourses'. This has stuck with me now for about 45 years. to me it was just us being us.
While it is quite a hike from Millom town to here, we used to count the cars parked up at the end of the sea wall and the most we counted was thirty-three. Now, you may just get a couple as the road has deteriated such a lot plus people can walk across the old mine now making it more accessible.
There is a small beach here and what is signifiquent to me is the amount of sand that has shifted from the rocks leaving more exposed and so leaving now a lot more rock pools to explore. It is a BYOP.
Kudos to Snakes 77 for FTF.