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The Scroby Sands are a series of sandbanks,about 7 miles long,situated about 1.5 miles out in The North Sea from Great Yarmouth,Norfolk.
There are about 200 Grey and Common Seals live here.I am not sure what the seals do at high tide,as the sand disappears below the waves!
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Scroby Sands windfarm from Great Yarmouth Beach, Norfolk [52.602255, 1.737964]
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Scroby Sands aerial image - Norfolk UK
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Aerial view of the Scroby Sands off Great Yarmouth in Norfolk
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Aerial view of Scroby Sands Windfarm off the Norfolk coast at Great Yarmouth - zoom in to see people working in the nacelle. #ScrobySands #Windfarm #aerial #image #aerialphotography
Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service all-weather lifeboat Bernard Matthews II powering out of her launch trailer.
Wind turbine maintenance from above.
Scroby Sands wind farm aerial image - 2.5 km off the coast of Norfolk at Great Yarmouth #ScrobySands #Windfarm #aerial #image #aerialphotography
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Aerial view of the Scroby Sands Windfarm off Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
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Scroby Sands wind farm under a predawn sky as seen from Caister beach in Norfolk.
One of the challenges of photographing an off shore wind farm, like Scroby Sands, is that all though the turbines are enormous, they stand about a mile and a half out to sea. This makes it difficult to balance the scale of the wind farm with the much smaller scale of foreground features on the beach.
This shot isn't ideally balanced since the turbines are a little too small. But it needed a wider angle in order take in the parts of the sky that were picking up the colour of the sunrise.
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Scroby Sands Windfarm aerial image - WaveWalker 8 legged walking jack-up barge servicing an offshore wind turbine on the Scroby Sands off Great Yarmouth #ScrobySands #windfarm #aerial #image #Norfolk #aerialphotography
The Vestas V89 wind turbine caught fire 15th August 2023 on the Scroby Sands Wind Farm operated by RWE. 1 in 2000 wind turbines catch fire each year. I can't find what caused this fire.
Scroby Sands wind farm aerial image
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Aerial view of windfarm on sand bank off the coast of Norfolk
Aerial view of Scroby Sands Windfarm off the coast at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk
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Aerial view of engineers carrying out servicing of a Vestas V80 wind turbine on the Scroby Sands off the coast of Norfolk near Great Yarmouth
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Early morning shoot from Caister Beach. This shot won me best landscape print 2012 at Hitchin camera clubs annual landscape competition.
Great Yarmouth's South Beach is to the south of Wellington Pier and the Pleasure Beach.
The wide sandy beach with its grassy sand dunes is ideal for families who want a quieter stretch of beach while still being close to all of the attractions and amenities provided on Marine Parade. At the far end of South Beach is the new outer harbour which although is still being completed it is now open to freight shipping. Dog walkers are welcome on South beach all year round.
Great Yarmouth, often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town in Norfolk, England, straddling the mouth of the River Yare, some 20 miles (30 km) east of Norwich. A population of 38,693 in the 2011 Census made it Norfolk's third most populous place. Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, fell steeply after the mid-20th century and has all but vanished. North Sea oil from the 1960s brought an oil-rig supply industry that now services offshore natural gas rigs. More recently, offshore wind power and other renewable energy have created further support services. Yarmouth has been a seaside resort since 1760 and a gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea. As a tourist centre, it was boosted when a railway opened in 1844 gave visitors easier, cheaper access and triggered an influx of settlers. Wellington Pier opened in 1854 and Britannia Pier in 1858. Through the 20th century, Yarmouth was a booming resort, with a promenade, pubs, trams, fish-and-chip shops and theatres, as well as the Pleasure Beach, the Sea Life Centre, the Hippodrome Circus and the Time and Tide Museum, and a surviving Victorian seaside Winter Garden in cast iron and glass.
The wind farm on the horizon are the Scroby Sands Wind Farm which is located on the Scroby Sands sandbank in the North Sea, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) off the coast of Great Yarmouth. It was commissioned in March 2004 by Powergen Renewables Offshore, a division of E.ON UK. It has a nameplate capacity of 60 megawatts and is able to produce power to supply 41,000 households. Between 2005 and 2010, its capacity factor was between 26 and 32%.
The farm consists of 30 wind turbines, located in water from 13 to 20 metres (43 to 66 ft) deep. Each turbine has three 40-metre (130 ft) blades that rotate around a centre-point some 60 metres (200 ft) above the mean sea level. The hollow 4.5-metre (14.8 ft) diameter steel masts that carry the turbines are piled as much as 30 metres (98 ft) into the sea bed, to provide stability on a substrate of shifting sands.
The wind turbines were designed and manufactured by a Danish firm, Vestas. Each turbine has a capacity of 2 megawatts. Turbines were installed by the Danish offshore wind farms services provider A2SEA.
Most of the stars in the sky are in the constellation of Perseus, being named after the Greek mythological hero Perseus. It is one of the 48 ancient constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and among the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It is located near several other constellations named after ancient Greek legends surrounding Perseus, including Andromeda to the west and Cassiopeia to the north. Perseus is also bordered by Aries and Taurus to the south, Auriga to the east, Camelopardalis to the north, and Triangulum to the west. Some star atlases during the early 19th century also depicted Perseus holding the disembodied head of Medusa, whose asterism was named together as Perseus et Caput Medusae; however, this never came into popular usage.
The best-known star, seen near the top right corner, is Algol (Beta Persei), linked with ominous legends because of its variability, which is noticeable to the naked eye. Rather than being an intrinsically variable star, it is an eclipsing binary.
Algol also known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright multiple star and one of the first non-nova variable stars to be discovered. Algol is a three-star system, consisting of Beta Persei Aa1, Aa2, and Ab – in which the hot luminous primary β Persei Aa1 and the larger, but cooler and fainter, β Persei Aa2 regularly pass in front of each other, causing eclipses. Thus Algol's magnitude is usually near-constant at 2.1, but regularly dips to 3.4 every 2.86 days during the roughly 10-hour-long partial eclipses. The secondary eclipse when the brighter primary star occults the fainter secondary is very shallow and can only be detected photoelectrically. Algol gives its name to its class of eclipsing variable, known as Algol variables.
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Zoom in and see the seals and birds? Scroby Sands - aerial Norfolk. Amazing article (if you're from Norfolk!) about Scroby Sands: www.stephensnelling.com/_articles/EDP_Jan_22_2011_Scroby_...
View the larger resolution sized image and you can see the seal on the sands. Aerial - Scroby Sands wind farm off Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. Aerial image
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