Hello Hello Hivers, Hivians and any other wonderful being who has stumbled onto this!
I am back with another wee stroll in the gorgeous autumn sunshine here in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, come let's walk the now.
This morning I had an errand to do in Dunfermline, so rather than take the car I jumped aboard the number 7 bus. One of the nice things about this journey is that much of it follows the Fife coast. And when somebody else is doing the driving, I can get a bit of work done, look out of the window, and ... yep you guessed it ... start taking photographs!
Leaving the Kirkcaldy area and heading along between Seafield and Kinghorn, the low morning sun was pouring across the fields.
Not a bad view from a bus window!
There is something about that combination of autumn fields, silhouetted trees and the sun reflecting from the Firth of Forth that makes you forget you're actually on public transport.
A little further along and the fields opened up.
I love the patterns left across the farmland at this time of year — the green tracks twisting through the cut fields almost look as though someone has painted them in.
And beyond it all, the sea.
Another glimpse of that morning sunshine before we reached Kinghorn.
The chimneys and trees were almost completely silhouetted, with shafts of sunlight streaming down towards the coast.
Sometimes the slightly imperfect photograph through a bus window actually captures the atmosphere better than the technically perfect one. Well that's my fluffing excuse and I am sticking to it!
And then suddenly the view opens right out.
Blue sky, blue water and a familiar little island sitting out in the Firth of Forth.
We're now heading from Kinghorn towards Burntisland.
A much clearer view of the island.
Then the landscape changes again as we continue along the coast.
The tide was well out, exposing huge stretches of sand and mudflats below.
Across the water the hills were sitting beneath one long, low strip of cloud, but it was blue sky everywhere else...
This might be my favourite of the journey.
The retreating tide had left little channels of water winding their way across the sand.
It's one of those views that changes constantly depending on the tide — come back a few hours later and much of this would be underwater again.
And yes, there's a fluffing inconvenient pole flashing past the bus window! More Authentic travel photography!
As we came closer to Dalgety Bay, the view opened out again across the Firth of Forth.
The trees in the foreground framed the water nicely, with the hills stretching across the far side.
One of those views that makes a routine bus journey feel a lot less routine.
And there it is Inchcolm Island and you can make out Inchcolm Abbey sitting on the island, which made this one a bit more special for us.
Mrs T and I have actually been over to Inchcolm and visited the abbey before, so seeing it from the bus brought back some good memories.
It is funny how different a place can look depending on where you see it from. From the island itself, the abbey feels quite substantial, but from the Fife coast it looks tiny sitting out there in the middle of the Forth.
A final view across the water as we carried on towards Dunfermline.
By now the early golden light had given way to clear blue skies, and the whole coast was looking rather spectacular.
Not bad scenery for a morning errand!
And finally ... we reached Dunfermline.
I spotted this signpost while I was walking through town and thought it made a nice ending to today's little journey.
Carnegie Library and Galleries, Abbot House, the Abbey and Palace, Pittencrieff Park and St Margaret's Cave ... I should turn that one sign into an entire Wednesday Walk one day!
But unfortunately I wasn't sightseeing today.
I actually had somewhere I was supposed to be, so not much time for sightseeing today.
And there we have it. I hope you enjoyed that and got out for a walk this week!
Anyway, have a good one.
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Thanks for visiting and I hope you managed to get out for a walk this week.
All images and ramblings are from me, except for the lead image which was a collage of these pictures and created in chatgpt, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated. Note images are all snapped by me with my Google Pixel 9 XL Pro smartphone on Wednesday 12th August 2026. 