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Look at this beautiful beach: Coldingham Sands near St Abbs, Scotland. If you’d had a lovely day at the bracing Scottish seaside, you’d want a cafe just there wouldn’t you? Nice hot chocolate with...
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Today’s mystery object…
…found on a beach in Scotland What do you think it is? It’s lard! A rather unusual relic from World War II washed at St Cyrus Nature Reserve, near Montrose, Aberdeenshire. Four large, oddly-shaped...
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Success and seamonsters…
…in the East Neuk of Fife. The Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, in the East Neuk of Fife has been granted £75,000 for its internationally important collection. If you look in the image above,...
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Still She Sings the Northern Isles
‘Orkney Stone’ by Dorothy Bruce Hard, like women’s salty tears, She waits, Old as bone, kissed brittle starlight. Dreaming centuries of tides and sea spray. Warm as sandstone breathing sunlight. And...
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Kelp, carpets and castles.
The tiny island of Kerrera first came to my attention through this article on the BBC. Kerrera’s locationContains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right I was intrigued to learn...
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So off we went, to the beach at night
Seriously, dog? It’s dark out there and you’re supposed to just have your pee and get back in the van quicksmart. Bedtime! But it’s not so dark. There’s still that aftermath light that lingers for...
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Marine turbines – catching the tide
A massive marine technology programme in Scotland has had the go ahead. Six turbines will be lowered into the Pentland Firth to generate 9 megawatts of power. They have 18 metre diameter rotors and...
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‘Crinan Canal for me..’
Clyde Puffer and Tarbert yawl in Crinan basin Two hundred years ago when roads were bumpy and water transport was king, building a canal was considered as essential as building a motorway or bypass...
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