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Arran from Kames Bay, Millport
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Firth of Clyde - Millport
Arran from Kames Bay, Millport, with RV Aora, the Inner Eilean, and West Bay.
15 April 2012
Time and Tide Bell, Camas Bostadh, Great Bernera, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Time and Tide Bell, Camas Bostadh, Great Bernera, Lewis, installed in 2010, with the island of Bearasaigh in the background. This is one of 12 bells around the country installed to be rung by the sea at high tide, to celebrate the connection between land and sea, and between ourselves and the environment.
21 June 2011
Mèalasta, and Eilean Mhèalasta, Uig, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Mol Foirsgeo, Mèalasta, with Eilean Mhèalasta and Scarp in the background. A bit beyond the sandy beach is the slipway at Mèalasta, the end of the road, 45 miles from Stornoway.
21 June 2011
Beach cusps and eroded sand dunes on Balephuil Bay, Tiree
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Tiree - Ceann a' Mhara, Balephuil, Hynish and Balemartine
Beach cusps and eroded sand dunes on Balephuil Bay, Tiree. Beach cusps form when backwash is concentrated into chance hollows in the beach, and as they are hollowed out, they become a self-perpetuating form of erosion. Sand dune erosion is becoming an increasing problem with rising sea level and the greater incidence of storms due to climate change.
29 April 2014
Beach cusps and eroded sand dunes on Balephuil Bay, Tiree
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Tiree - Ceann a' Mhara, Balephuil, Hynish and Balemartine
Beach cusps and eroded sand dunes on Balephuil Bay, Tiree. Beach cusps form when backwash is concentrated into chance hollows in the beach, and as they are hollowed out, they become a self-perpetuating form of erosion. Sand dune erosion is becoming an increasing problem with rising sea level and the greater incidence of storms due to climate change.
29 April 2014
Ripples on a sand bank, Scapa Bay, Orkney
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Orkney - Scapa
Ripples on a sand bank, Scapa Bay, Orkney, taken by Lorna Beattie
01 April 2018
Ripples on a sand bank, Scapa Bay, Orkney
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Orkney - Scapa
Ripples on a sand bank, Scapa Bay, Orkney, taken by Lorna Beattie
01 April 2018
Traigh na Beirigh, Uig, Isle of Lewis
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CEP - Lewis
Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig, from Cnip, one of the many white sandy beaches on the isle of Lewis. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar.
11 July 1966
Coilleag a' Phrionnsa beach, Eriskay
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Western Isles - Eriskay
The sandy beach of Coilleag a' Phrionnsa, Eriskay
25 May 2017
Coilleag a' Phrionnsa beach, Eriskay
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Western Isles - Eriskay
The sandy beach of Coilleag a' Phrionnsa, Eriskay, with Yellow Flag Irises (Iris pseudacorus)
