I’ve posted photos from Seaham before, but when I walked along the beach the other
day, there were pools that were bright red, so I thought I’d share these photos too.
It was such a hot day when we visited, although the beach was fairly empty. A quick Google showed that the stretch of coastline was once used as a dumping ground for four nearby mines. The mines closed in the 1980s, but the coal pollution from back then caused the bright red water. During the past decade, though, the beach has undergone a huge clean-up operation, and it's much better than it once was.
The beach isn’t very far from Penshaw, where we stopped off on our way home.
