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 now beautiful stretch of coastline was once used as a dumping ground for 4 nearby mines. The mines closed in the 1980s, but the coal pollution from back then caused the red water. During the past decade, though, the beach has undergone a huge clean-up operation, and it is much better than it once was.
The beach isn’t very far from Penshaw, where we stopped off on our way home.
