Dysartian
Dysart Dredging - Scooping Up the Muck
Yesterday they were dredging Dysart Harbour at extreme low tide. This involved driving a mechanical digger from the beach right into the main harbour basin. They then scooped up harbour mud and filled lorries which then seemingly drove out to the open sea. This shot shows the excavator down in the harbour-basin, scooping up mud. You can see the bedrock on which the harbour walls sit. Dysart Harbour was historically a sandstone quarry which provided ashlar sandstone blocks for Ravenscraig Castle (a royal castle) just around the corner. After the French masons had built the castle and St Serf's Tower, the canny locals constructed a harbour around the un-natural depression by the sea!
Dysart Dredging - Scooping Up the Muck
Yesterday they were dredging Dysart Harbour at extreme low tide. This involved driving a mechanical digger from the beach right into the main harbour basin. They then scooped up harbour mud and filled lorries which then seemingly drove out to the open sea. This shot shows the excavator down in the harbour-basin, scooping up mud. You can see the bedrock on which the harbour walls sit. Dysart Harbour was historically a sandstone quarry which provided ashlar sandstone blocks for Ravenscraig Castle (a royal castle) just around the corner. After the French masons had built the castle and St Serf's Tower, the canny locals constructed a harbour around the un-natural depression by the sea!