Solway Firth from Bowness
This rather bleak muddy landscape at least shows that blue skies are not always integral to my posts. It was the only day of the holiday that the skies were grey . It's certainly not pretty image, though the Solway is classed as an Area of outstanding natural beauty,. The image shows a small part of the estuary of the Solway Firth, a place I had never visited before . It's taken from Bowness-on- Solway and you are looking across the border at Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland . Although in the shot there is a vast expanse of mud if I had waited the whole area would have been covered in water from the Irish Sea at High tide .
The Solway has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world. My friend who lives at Bowness says that the tide comes in very quickly and the area is hard to navigate as the tidal force shits the sand and mud banks around. There are times at high tide when the road to her house is flooded and she has to wait on higher ground till the tide turns . There is no bridge across the Solway though for a period between 1869 and 1935 a rail bridge existed
Bowness - on- Solway has one other claim to fame its the beginning of the Roman Hadrians Wall though there is very little to see of it
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Solway Firth from Bowness
This rather bleak muddy landscape at least shows that blue skies are not always integral to my posts. It was the only day of the holiday that the skies were grey . It's certainly not pretty image, though the Solway is classed as an Area of outstanding natural beauty,. The image shows a small part of the estuary of the Solway Firth, a place I had never visited before . It's taken from Bowness-on- Solway and you are looking across the border at Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland . Although in the shot there is a vast expanse of mud if I had waited the whole area would have been covered in water from the Irish Sea at High tide .
The Solway has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world. My friend who lives at Bowness says that the tide comes in very quickly and the area is hard to navigate as the tidal force shits the sand and mud banks around. There are times at high tide when the road to her house is flooded and she has to wait on higher ground till the tide turns . There is no bridge across the Solway though for a period between 1869 and 1935 a rail bridge existed
Bowness - on- Solway has one other claim to fame its the beginning of the Roman Hadrians Wall though there is very little to see of it
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD NOT FAVE A PHOTO WITHOUT ALSO LEAVING A COMMENT .