The sound of waves breaking onto the foreshore was unmistakable while walking down the wooden ravine that leads to Filey coble landing.
As the road levelled out towards the bottom, a fresh south-easterly breeze was encouraging numerous holidaymakers to make an early retreat from an afternoon on the beach.
On rounding the corner at Filey lifeboat station, the sight of whitecaps on a crystal blue sea set off to the south by the white cliffs of Flamborough Head was in marked contrast to the scene 14 hours earlier, when swirling fog obliterated everything outside a 20m radius.
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