Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Tag: sea arch

  • An Dùn

    An Dùn

    Another section of the John o’Groats Trail completed. I’ve done a fair few now. This coastline north of Helmsdale really is superb . And another ‘fort’; or is it? About the only evidence this promontory with a narrow sea arch under its neck is indeed a fort, is its name ‘An Dùn’, which means in…

  • Bullers of Buchan

    Bullers of Buchan

    “The Pot”, once a massive sea cave with a collapsed roof. A buller is a whirlpool or in this case, it refers to the bellowing noise coming from The Pot as the sea roars through the arch. There is a local legend of a fisherman, in his boat one evening seeing a mermaid at the…