The Stack

What a fascinating rock.

Thank you very much Esther. It is huge!!

Have a lovely week

Beautiful.
I remembered Caithness more... flat ;-)))
HBM!

Thank you very much Markus. Well yes - you are right but there are quite a few stacks along the coastline. Did you visit Duncansby Stacks on your visit? I did try to get photos as they are beautiful and impressive but alas my photography was very much less so..;-)))

HBM and have a great week

Great sky and wonderful light in a well composed and fascinating image,
Gene Clark is good by me.
HBM and a great week

Thank you very muc Roger. I really liked this little harbour.
I am pleased you liked the Gene Clark song
HBM and have a good week

That's what I call geology on speed! It's huge.

As ever Carol a beautiful composition with the picnic set providing scale, and a must to view large!

:)) Thank you very much Maggs. Yes it is certainly huge and even makes the boats look tiny. There are a lot of steps up from the harbour to the street above and you can still see the top of it from the road

HBM and have a lovely week. I don't know what happened to our srorm - the sun is out here!!

Un gran peñón con presencia imponente. Mesa y bancos bien pintados. Buena distribución. HBM Carol.

Thank you very much Jose. You can see why the place was named for the rock!

HBM and have a lovely week

Excellente et admirable prise de vue. Un joli port en perspective.
HBM et agréable semaine.

Many thanks Malik. Really appreciated
Have a good week ahead

Excellent shot! HBM! Stay well!

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Many thanks William. Stay well and have a good week

Amazing... :-)

Many thanks Jyryk. Have a lovely week ahead

Very nice place!

Thank you very much Stephan. Really appreciated.
Have a lovely evening

une belle photo reposante carol !!

Thank you very much Dominique. It is a pretty little harbour and the stack is quite eye catching
Have a lovely evening and good week ahead

Ein sehr schönes Foto, dieser Fels wird bestimmt von manchen erklettert.

It would not surprise me at all Reinhard .

Many thanks. HFF and have a good week

What an amzing rock formation.
Happy BM and a peaceful week ahead.

Thank you very much Jaap Really appreciated
HBM and have a good week

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Thank you very much Trudy. HBM and have a good week

A great and historic place, wonderful to see and learn about.
Have a good and enjoying week, Carol
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Thank you very much Heide. It must have been really busy in the days of the herring salting, but when it was moved to Wick, a couple of miles away they had the foresight to turn this into the pretty little place it is today

HBM and have a good week ahead

Happy new week:)

Thank you very much Annemarie. I wish you a lovely new week also

It's a lovely shot, Carol!
Just a quick question ... dating back to at least 1878 ... Are you sure? That seems far too recent for anything described as '... back to at least ...'!! If this was in America, it would make perfect sense!

You are right of course Andy. It is a natural harbour. Records are a little vague and use the date of the first Ordnance Survey map here which shows a harbour there. There is some suggestion it may date back as far as the 1600s but without earlier records I have used the first recorded date. It will of course be much older. From the information I could find the herring salting industry itself would probably predate the ONS date and it would have been used for other fishing prior to that.

The name itself, from the Norse meaning inlet of the stack also suggests to me there may have been Norwegian settlers here way back further than this
My apologies for the confusion

Thank you for your interest Andy. Have a good weekend

Thanks for the clarification, Carol! And I corrected my comment so that 'uick' now reads slightly better as 'quick'!! :o)

No worries Andy. Sorry I can't clarify it further. I have amended the text a little so as not to mislead people.

Have a good weekend

Ein wunderbarer Ort. ich liebe Schottland. HBM Dir.

Thank you very much Karl. I do too. There are so many places to discover, some pretty like this and others just magnificent.

HBM and have a good new week

Blue bench at the green coast, HBM Carol!

Thank you very much Volker. Really appreciated
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A good and very interesting picture Carol. I have a book about the herring trade in Scotland with some great pictures. Thank you also for the information with this one.
HBM and a good new week.

Thank you very much Rosa. It is fascinating and I am sure your book is interesting. I got distracted reading about it online, - but that is me - a short attention span!!

Staxigoe must have been very different in the herring salting days, but now it has found a new lease of life as a sleepy and pretty little harbour.

HBM and have a lovely new week

This is amazing!! The stack looks really huge, a nice place for a picnic. HBM Carol.

Thank you very much Christa. It is quite a sight!! It is an attractive harbour and there are several bench sets in blue like this around the harbour. It looks so well kept it would be a pleasure to have a picnic here or just to sit and enjoy the view
HBM and have a good week

Das ist ja schön gemacht mit diesen blauen Rastplatz liebe Carol,da setzt man sich doch gerne hin und genießt diese Ruhe und den schönen Ausblick :))

Wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))

Thank you very much Guni. It is a pretty place and when it looks so clean and well maintained it makes you happy to sit there or even stay for a picnic

Have a lovely week ahead

I would like to start my week there.

Thank you very much Tony. I would like to go back there.

Have a good week ahead

An interesting and colourful scene, Carol. That rock stack really makes me wonder about the geological history of the area. HBM and have a good week.

Thank you very much George. The stacks in this area are fascinating. The ones at Duncansby Head are probably much better known but this single stack is impressive and more accessible.
HBM and have a good week ahead

HBM Carol!

HBM and have a good week Walter

delightful bench in a spectacular location, but I would love to be on that boat !
Hopeful BM & New Week !

Thank you very much Nora. That is a lovely thought!
HBM and have a good week

Mooi gecomponeerde Foto Carol (HBM) voor die blauwe bank

Thank you very much Fred. I liked how fresh and well maintained it all looked
HBM and have a good week

I’d love to sit there… HBM Carol

Thank you Isabel. It is a pretty place

HBM and have a good week

Looks beautiful there ! HBM and a good week ahead, Carol !

Thank you very much Ulrich. Have a good new week and HBM to you

HBM and have a great week, Carol.

Thank you very much Marco. HBM and have a good new week

Thats a big lump of rock Carol and a great bench.
HBM have a great week.
TOZ

Yes it is huge TOZ and the harbour is pretty and very nicely maintained
HBM and have a good week

Ein schöner Platz zum Verweilen, besonders bei diesem schönen Wetter. Ich mag den Kontrast zwischen dem rauhen Felsen und der blauen Bank.
HBM und einen guten Start in die Woche, Carol!

Thank you very much Wilhelm. The brightly painted bench sets make it look cheerful and fresh.
HBM and have a good week

HBM und eine gute Woche für Dich!

Thank you very much Bea.
HBM and have a lovely new week

Splendid view!

Thank you very much Helena

Best wishes and have a lovely evening

Superbe endroit bonne journée

Thank you very much Patrick. Really appreciated
Have a lovely evening

Wonderful photography throughout. All better seen at large size.

Thank you very much Rashid. I was impressed with this pretty little harbour and the huge stack.

Have a good week ahead

That is a bright and colourful seat. I could spend time resting here. A lovely photo, Carol. Super detail too. And, a perfect musical match. In your comment on my Aviary photos you said “Anything by Gene Clark is good for me!!”. Likewise for me, Carol. I'm gonna fish out the 'Roadmaster' album and, surprisingly, I know exactly where it is :-)
Have a good rest of the week.

Thank you Carol for this wonderful picture.
And thank you again for having told us all the things around it.
Happy new week.

Cette composition est vraiment très belle ! bravo !

Sehr schöne Bildkomposition aus dem Norden Schottlands, Carol.
So weit oben war ich auch, jedoch mehr westlich.
Schöne Grüße und einen guten Abend
Erich

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