Scotland

The northernmost peninsula on the Isle of Skye is known as Trotternish The Trotternish Ridge is the result of a massive landslip, and runs for about 19 mlles/30 km, almost the full length of the peninsula. Trotternish Ridge is the result of the UK’s largest known landslide. The most obvious landslides occurred within the last 15,000 years and some movement does still occur, as the regular road repairs lower down testify. Both the Old man of Storr and The Quiraing are famous geological features that have been formed as part of this landslip. The ridge is a very popular destination for hillwalkers. Rising to 2358 feet/719 mtrs at its highest point, it has a total of 13 named summits along its way. The The Black and Red Cuillins Two Cuillin ranges dominate the landscape on Skye: the Black Cuillin and the Red Cuillin separated by Glen Sligachan. A single footpath runs through the glen for a distance of 8 miles/13 km from Sligachan in the north to Camasunary Bay in the south. The iconic ridge of the Black Cuillin is the UK’s most challenging mountain range. Over 6.8 miles/11km long and above 3,000 feet/914 mtrs in places. The highest point is Sgurr Alasdair at 3,254 feet./992 mtrs The gentler, rounded Red Cuillin are popular with hillwalkers, the highest point being Glamaig, at 2,543 feet/775 mtrs. The distinctive peak of Marsco, shown above, is also in the Red Cuillin and stands at 2414 feet/736 mtrs.

The buildings visible through the arch of the 14th century gatehouse of the Augustinian cathedral-priory of St Andrews cathedral are a small part of St. Leonards Independent School This gate-hall was the main entrance to the priory and consists of four bays with a cross-wall between the first and second bays. Now a roofless shell with a large vehicular entrance, it has lost most of its upper storey and the gate-hall vaulting. The road (The Pends) gives access from South Street to the harbour. The tower in the right had picture is that of St. Salvator's Chapel, situated on North Street and is part of the college of the same name. Founded in 1450 by Bishop James Kennedy, St. Salvator's College is part of the University of St. Andrews (founded 1413)

St. Andrews Harbour A creel is a cage used to catch lobsters and other crustaceans.

(Nerys) Taken on East Sands beach - St. Andrews, Fife

A new neighbour at the East Sands - opened October 2019. The SOI is located on the site of the original ‘Gatty Marine Laboratory’, which was opened in 1896.

North Pier St. Andrews Harbour, Fife - Scotland

North Pier St. Andrews Harbour (1 x PiP) The North Pier is a classic example of Scottish vernacular harbour work. It comprises a pier of rubble construction, with a substantial bulwark on its seaward face, to protect the wide quay from overtopping seas in heavy weather. The course of the pier is somewhat crooked, reflecting the strategy of the builders to construct it from strong point to strong point along the natural rock skerry which forms its foundation. The dry-stone, rubble construction of this pier gives it great character and the surfaces reveal many examples of repairs to the pier, using a variety of different strategies for placing the stones. The outer, seaward face of this pier contains in places re-used stone with rolled moulded margins, presumably coming from the ruined castle or cathedral in the 18th and 19th centuries. The North Pier has a number of important features along is length, including cyclopean stone mooring pawls, stone stairs leading to the bulwark and a stone slipway in the harbour where the pier joins the Shorehead quay. The outer, seaward end of the North pier is of 19th and 20th century date, reflecting efforts to improve the access to the harbour in heavy weather.It is of typical Victorian and later cement construction, much more rectilinear than the earlier work at the shoreward end. This later extension is fitted with cast-iron mooring pawls. ( Source: St. Andrews Harbour Trust )

The history of St Andrews Harbour is one that spans the centuries and is inseparably linked with the life of the coastal town it serves; indeed at one time the very life-blood of it. No doubt the Harbour's footings are to be found in nothing more than the unimproved shores of the Kinness Burn, around which the early inhabitants of the town, then still known as Kilrymont, would go about their simple lives of fishing and farming. During medieval times and through to the 16th century the harbour would see significant development with the construction of the original stone built piers and quays to serve the many travellers and merchants of the time; the town developing as an important academic, ecclesiastical and trading centre. Today the 18th to 20th century extensions and developments to the Long (North) Pier and Cross Pier form the well-sheltered havens of the Outer and enclosed Inner Harbours, which are home to a small, but growing, flotilla of pleasure craft and a small fishing fleet that in its heyday would have numbered fifty vessels and more. Behind the harbour buildings can be seen some of the remains of St. Andrews Cathedral, including St Rule's tower, sometimes referred to as the Square tower. The tower located in the Cathedral grounds but predates it, having served as the church of the priory up to the early 12th century. The building was retained to allow worship to continue uninterrupted during the building of its much larger successor. Originally, the tower and adjoining choir were part of the church built in the 11th century to house the relics of St Andrew. The nave, with twin western turrets, and the apse of the church no longer stand Today the tower commands an admirable view of the town, harbour, sea, and surrounding countryside.

HFF 11 Oct 2019 Staffin Bay and the Inner Sound from Digg, Trotternish Peninsula - Isle of Skye

HFF 1/11/2019 The crofting community of Digg is one of several such communities situated on the Quiriang in the Staffin area of the Trotternish peninsula. A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer, especially in rural areas. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 gives crofters the right to buy their land. The word croft (Scottish Gaelic - croit) is West Germanic in etymology and is now most familiar in Scotland, most crofts being in the Highlands and Islands area. The Quiraing (in Gaelic: 'Cuith-Raing') is a landslip on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The whole of the Trotternish Ridge escarpment was formed by a great series of landslips; the Quiraing is the only part of the slip still moving, the road at its base, near Flodigarry, requires repairs each year.

Staffin Bay - Isle of Skye

Taken overlooking Staffin Bay - isle of Skye. The land just about visible on the right is the island of Rona or South Rona as it is sometimes referred to. The Inner Sound (Scottish Gaelic: An Lighe Rathairseach) is a strait separating the Inner Hebridean islands of Skye, Raasay and South Rona from the Applecross peninsula on the Scottish mainland. The Inner Sound includes the deepest section of the UK's territorial waters, with a maximum depth of 1,062 feet (324 metres).

A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer, especially in rural areas. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 gives crofters the right to buy their land. The word croft (Scottish Gaelic - croit) is West Germanic in etymology and is now most familiar in Scotland, most crofts being in the Highlands and Islands area.

The view is from the Isle of Skye over the Inner Sound towards the mainland of Scotland.

Trotternish Ridge and the community of Digg - Isle of Skye

Taken at Staffin Slipway