Tag: beach
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Mainistir Achaidh Mhóir
The ruins of the 6th-century Ahamore Abbey, overlooking Derrynane Bay in County Kerry and lying on the appropriately named Abbey Island which only lives up to being its status of being an island at the highest spring tide.
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Talwch ac arddangoswch
Found a lovely little beach in Anglesey with my first Thrift of the year. I thought it was Talwch ac arddangoswch which I realised later means “Pay and display”. Doh, should have paid attention to reading the map. The correct name is Rhoscolyn. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Old Saltburn
Not the “modern” town developed by the Quaker industrialist Henry Pease in the late Victorian period but the small fishing hamlet that can be dated to medieval times and beyond. Neolithic artefacts have been found on the beach and there is a Bronze Age burial mound on Cat Nab, just off to the left in…
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Wreck of a buoy, Cattersty Sands
Cattersty Sands near Skinningrove was selected as the 25th best beach in Britain according to the Telegraph, so take what you want from that. On a wet and very windy Easter Monday, it was absolutely deserted, apart from a handful of dog walkers. This wreck is an old buoy, supposedly washed up in the 1950s…
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Petrified forest, Redcar Sands
Every so often, after a particularly fierce storm, petrified tree stumps appear out of the sands on the beach at Redcar, only to be buried again a few weeks later. The last time was 2013. Last week’s Beast from the East scoured away a vast tract of sand revealing several tree stumps, fallen logs and…
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Cattersty Sands
A sight familiar to walkers on the Cleveland Way which uses the sand for a short while before climbing Cattersty Cliff on its way to Saltburn. I managed to grab this photo before the winter rain set in. Bounded by Jackdaw Crag at its far end and the old jetty and slag cliffs created in…
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Stop that pigeon
Catch the pigeon
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The Battle of Marske Beach
The English Civil War largely bypassed the Tees valley. The battles at Piercebridge, Yarm and Guisborough are well documented. What isn’t documented well, if at all, is the Battle of Marske Beach as it is known in local tradition. In 1643 Marske is a sleepy fishing village on the North Yorkshire coast. It’s the principle…
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Tràigh na Beirigh
On the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, a two kilometre stretch of golden sands with hardly a footprint on it. ‘S math sin. ‘S math sin is a Gaelic phrase that found its into English. ‘S math sin is pronounced smashing and that exactly what it means.
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Bheàrnaraigh
Fantastic rock strata on an un-named beach on the north coast of Berneray. Gneiss I understand, a metamorphic rock 542 to 4000 million years old. I thought geologists could be more precise than that. Berneray, Gaelic Bheàrnaraigh, is said to come from the Norse bjarnar and ey meaning island of the bear. Whether bears survived here is hard to…