We turn now to the scenes from the North Bay. Since we were staying on the North Bay side of Scarborough, I did take a few more photos on that side, in addition to the panorama and the sunset ones. I’m going to divide them up across a couple of posts.
Today’s set covers what the beach scene was like on that side. I.e., there’s no big strip of shops and restaurants right by the beach, like there was on the South Bay. There’s a big amusement park on the South Side next to the lighthouse that I didn’t point out in yesterday’s photos. While there’s nothing exactly like that on the North Bay side, there were several miniature golf places. Many years ago in Iowa, Chris and I would often play rounds of miniature golf (the best course was the one at an ice cream stand, where a hole-in-one in the 18th hole won you a free ice cream sundae). Back in the day, we once played 5 different courses in a single day in and around Iowa City.
The fact that it was on my birthday that year … and that Chris beat me in every single game that day … is remembered by each of us for perhaps different reasons…
But I digress.
In Scarborough, we only had a chance to try 2 courses, and we each won one game. Unlike the U.S. courses we’ve played, these only had 12 holes, BTW, not the expected 18. The day we were going to try a 3rd course in to decide the match was day that it rained. As all the courses were outdoors, there went our rubber match possibility, and so our golfing rivalry ended in a tie. Maybe next time.
However, I would like to point out that I won on the course that they claim is used for the Yorkshire Miniature Golf championships. I’m just saying.
Anyway, that was a mighty long intro to today’s photos from the North Bay … which actually don’t include a photo of any of the golf courses. I really thought I’d had one, but I don’t. (If you want to read someone’s description of the course check out this woman’s blog here. Note that in England miniature golf is called “crazy golf”. My favorite course in Scarborough was not the Pirate course (on which I won), but actually the Crazy Crab one (you’ll see descriptions and photos of each in that blog post).
I do have lots of other photos of things we saw on the North Bay, however. We’ll start today with things near the beach.
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- Looking toward the North Bay
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- North Bay Beach, Scarborough
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- Beach Chalets, North Bay Beach, Scarborough
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- Beach Chalets, Scarborough
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- Beach Chalets, ScarboroughSeaside huts, Scarborough
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- Beach Chalets and Highrises, Scarborough. You could also call those chalets “seaside huts”, in order to get the alliterative title of I gave to this photo. 🙂
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- Road along the beach, North Bay
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- Superloo signage, Scarborough
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- Freddie Gilroy statue, Scarborough
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- Visitors to the Freddie Gilroy statue
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- Park overlooking the North Bay
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- Beach at low tide, North Bay, Scarborough
More from the North Bay including more scenes on the beach.
Kudos to whoever dared to paint those beach houses with such vibrant colors. One wonders whether the shock might have sent some locals to the superloo.
Thanks for drawing our attention to both standouts: the colorful houses and the superloo sign!
Interesting sign, make one wonder if they have indoor plumbing or …
Lovely shots. I liked the first one with the close up arch and the water below and in the distance the landscape. some how it gave me the feeling of a unique perspective that shattered the realistic one entertained by architects. I actually love the beautiful primary -ish colors of the huts. I find them to stand out well at a neutral gray of a seaside in the English well known foggy mornings and nights. If that area has them. I was in Glascow and was lucky to see Sunshine, but then I saw it in the fog-very surreal. Great pictures and that statue is well done. Nice text and I want to know who wins the tie breaker.
I enjoyed the tranquil ocean scene and the flowers in the little park but I mostly like the colorful chalets. Oh, yes, I rediscovered the meaning of “loo” this trip to England–both the free ones and the paid ones.
Thanks for all the comments!
@Will – Thanks – glad you enjoyed these “highlights”. 😉
@Mom – well, it would hardly be super in my book if it was *indoor* plumbing… 😉
@Kathy – when we turned around to back up that path (after looking at the South Bay), the view of the North Bay was indeed striking through that arch. I had to wait (not necessarily patiently) for the tourists to finish crossing the bridge on the top of the arch in order to take my photos, to preserve the pristine scene with the arch and the water. Ive never been to Glascow, but the fog sounds like it could lend itself to some very atmospheric photos. 🙂 I’ll keep you posted whenever we play that golf tiebreaker someday, although when and where that will be I’m not sure…
@Stan – I’m a big fan of the “pay” style toilets in general these days – usually better maintained than the free counterparts. I’m sorry now that we didn’t actually stick our head in the door of the Superloo to gather more info – I’ve gotten more questions/comments about that in general than almost anything else from Scarborough (here on the blog and elsewhere). 🙂