Coastal Scotland

Into the North Sea as the sun goes down. Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland ..................Best on Black............. . .

The floodlights begin to illuminate Castle Stalker as the sun sets on Loch Laich, Argyll & Bute. Castle Aaaaarrrrggghhh from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © all rights reserved.

Evening over the RNLI Lifeboat station at St Abbs, Scottish Borders. Home the Atlantic 75 boat "Dorothy and Katherine Barr II " Despite local opposition and having already saved 4 lives in the year, the RNLI boat was withdrawn on 8th September 2015, urgent fundraising and a generous donation from Sir George Tunnock allowed the purchase of an independent lifeboat, she was named "Thomas Tunnock" and officially launched 17th September 2016. The St Abbs Lifeboat is crewed by a group of highly experienced men and women, most of whom work the seas around St Abbs every day as fishermen, dive boat operators and divers. Their local knowledge is second to none. Between them they have amassed over 330 years personal experience of saving lives at sea. (From the Lifeboat Web Site) www.stabbslifeboat.org.uk/support-stabbs-lifeboat

Another of my early IP posts, Bronze life size Fisherman (by Andrew Brown) looking across the Bay of Luce, Port William, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Plaque carries the the words, What is this life if, full of care We have no time to stand and stare (W. H. Davis) Fuller version, WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?— No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows: No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass: No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night: No time to turn at Beauty’s glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance: No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began? A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. .

Foreshore at Dornoch, Sutherland. This is on the north side of the Dornoch Firth. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © all rights reserved.

Port Appin Lighthouse near the point where Loch Creran meets The Lynn of Lorn. © copyright 2014, All rights reserved, may not be used without my explicit permission.

Ardnamurchan lighthouse entrance and exit. © copyright 2014, All rights reserved, may not be used without my explicit permission

North Sea Evening at St Abbs. . . . .Please view on black. © copyright 2014, All rights reserved, Image may not be used without my explicit written permission

Cormorants resting from the North Sea at St Abbs, Scottish Borders..................Best on Black.............. © copyright 2014, All rights reserved, Image may not be used without my explicit written permission