Looking straight ahead from Brighton I was able to eliminate all the man made edifices‚ the bathing boxes and skyline and I could just see the ever moving sea ‚ so I tried to get the mood of the roughness of it with no boats or anything to do with civilisation‚ then along came a flock of gannets‚ unusual for them to come so near to us. they were concentrating on looking for fish and for a moment there was a flash of yellow and then they were gone. It was a cold and miserable day.