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View of St.Andrews Fife. Looking north from the Crail Road. The North Sea can be seen right centre with the famous West Sands top right.
For a brief period, the Fife Coastal Path heads inland to avoid a difficult section of coastline around the village of Boarhills. Instead, the path strikes a course through by the Kenly Water, treating walkers to around a mile of woodland and field walks before dropping them back down to the coast. Once the woodland ends and the Kenly Water flows into the North Sea, the path returns to the beach.
Once you step onto the beach, you'll spot this small ruin in the distance and if you venture over to it, you'll find that it's full of junk, including milk cartons, fruit shoots and beer cans. If it wasn't by the coastal path, it wouldn't be worth checking out.
The view north east from the Fife Coastal Path a few minutes walk from St Monans Auld Kirk. The auld kirk is the closest church to the sea in Britain.
Panorama stitched from 2 photo's, handheld.
Quite astonishing to see how much the setting of the castle has changed... From this - to this.
It's also interesting how much interest the local polis take in you when wandering near a naval dockyard with a large-lensed SLR... Although there's big signs saying 'no entry', 'no photography' etc, making yourself known to the security guard at the adjacent gate works wonders.
Nevertheless, don't visit in May/June time - the castle is basically one great big seagull nest, and being dive-bombed by angry seagulls was not fun. We lasted about five minutes before beating a hasty retreat.
The old houses at Pan Ha, Dysart (still occupied) with St Serf's Tower and the chimney of the Lady Blanche Colliery behind them. The Lady Blanche (the Engine Pit ), was reported to be the first coal-mine in Scotland to use an engine to pump out water. The pit closed in 1924 and the adjacent Dysart Harbour closed in 1929, plunging the small town into economic decline. The photo is courtesy of the Dysart Trust. www.dysart-trust.org.uk
One of the nine loopholes for riflemen in the brick boundary wall of the Kinghorn Battery, opposite the end of Alexander the Third Street. Five have been filled in but three are open. They seem to have have been metal-framed.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 22 August 2013.
A tranquil Autumnal day at Dysart Harbour, Fife. The island in the background is Inchkeith whilst Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags above Edinburgh form the backdrop.
The breakwater appears to have been built in the second half of the 19th century - it first appears on the 1894 survey, possibly related to the adjacent Tyrie Bleach Works. In it's broken-tooth form, it's now rather picturesque.
A series of multiple exposures combined to make a single image. It surprises me that the detail in the water is so good while the rocks has been almost posterised.
Not a pretty sight, but the masonry tells a story.
The 3rd period of building work here occurred in the late 16th century, when a new house was built on the second period ground floor, extending from the cellars to the wall of the tower and having a stair tower towards the courtyard. The little stair tower we will see better in the next picture, but what is very distinguishable here is the diagonal line of crow-steps that formed the gable of this late 16th century work, leading up to the chimney, the outline of which can be seen embedded in the wall.
The ugly mess on the left, is of course the remains of the round north-east tower. M&R, who had the advantage of seeing it comparatively complete, state that "The round tower contains five floors, each provided with a fireplace. At every stage the shape of the rooms varies in a most extraordinary manner, no two floors being the same in plan."
The castle buildings occupied the east side of the promontory, the west was occupied by a fully enclosed courtyard - only fragments of which remain. At its far end, the courtyard is enclosed by a "strong south wall of enceinte", which presumably dates back to before the 16th century. All the wall along the west side has gone, for once not removed by the hand of man for building new buildings, but reclaimed by Mother Nature, who has undermined the cliff upon which it stood!
At this, the northern end, the courtyard wall returned to the building at the near corner - the little ledge near the warning sign probably representing the height of the top of the wall. The entrance gate was here, "strongly defended with double gates, each secured with bars inside, the holes for which still exist". There are also reports that that there was originally a defensive ditch, and therefore a drawbridge here, although it was presumably filled in in the late 17th century.
Wagtail enjoying the light breeze on the Kingsbarns Golf Links.
Six miles down the coast from the most revered links golf course in the world, the Old Course at St. Andrews.
Only £125 a round!!! Pretty exclusive.
Long exposure of the abandoned pier at Carlingnose Point. This image was taken from the vantage point on the Fife Coastal Path.
The cormorant has an almost primitive appearance with its long neck making it appear almost reptilian. It is often seen standing with its wings held out to dry. Regarded by some as black, sinister and greedy, cormorants are supreme fishers which can bring them into conflict with anglers and they have been persecuted in the past. The UK holds internationally important wintering numbers.
The Cormorant has an extremely large distribution, being found on every continent except South America and Antarctica.
The species is often persecuted by the aquaculture industry and may be shot, drowned or poisoned in attempts to control numbers.