KenMcCulloch
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So whereisthis then?
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Kilter
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Eyemouth?
starboard
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I would say Eyemouth......the next question though is what type of aircraft is it taken from???
Paul.
Paul.
starboard
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Looks like a microlite to me!
Paul.
Paul.
sarabande
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there are cannons nearby, and the French built it on English / Scottish / British soil.
Romeo
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Anyone been to "World of Boats" at Eyemouth? Keep meaning to go as it is only an hour away.
Romeo
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Can you get a boat into the hole in the cliffs, bottom left of the picture? (on a calm day).
KenMcCulloch
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there are cannons nearby, and the French built it on English / Scottish / British soil.
[/ QUOTE ]Err well maybe you know more about the place than I do, I wasn't aware of a French connection, but there certainly were (are?) cannons at Gunsgreen and the gentlemen above are abolutely right, it is Eyemouth. It was taken from a Microlight a couple of years ago when I was contemplating learning to fly.
I decided against learning to fly because even a microlight can use 10 litres an hour of unleaded petrol and I don't like consuming hydrocarbons and emitting CO2 at that rate purely for pleasure. CO2 from microlights is one of the causes of climate change you know.
there are cannons nearby, and the French built it on English / Scottish / British soil.
[/ QUOTE ]Err well maybe you know more about the place than I do, I wasn't aware of a French connection, but there certainly were (are?) cannons at Gunsgreen and the gentlemen above are abolutely right, it is Eyemouth. It was taken from a Microlight a couple of years ago when I was contemplating learning to fly.
I decided against learning to fly because even a microlight can use 10 litres an hour of unleaded petrol and I don't like consuming hydrocarbons and emitting CO2 at that rate purely for pleasure. CO2 from microlights is one of the causes of climate change you know.
KenMcCulloch
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Can you get a boat into the hole in the cliffs, bottom left of the picture? (on a calm day).
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I don't know but it might be fun to try. It would need to be a very small boat though I think.
Can you get a boat into the hole in the cliffs, bottom left of the picture? (on a calm day).
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I don't know but it might be fun to try. It would need to be a very small boat though I think.
Alfie168
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Nearly didn't recognise it, but the big white old customs house on the south shore gave it away.
I've not sailed into Eyemouth, but I camped at Coldingham just up the road in 2003 for three nights, had the best F&Cs I've had in years at the Italian Pizza/Ice cream parlour & F&C shop at the harbour. Said 'hello' to the resident harbour seal. World of Boats was just being advertised, but I don't think it had opened.
We swam in the sea at Coldingham Bay, just to the south of St Abbs ..its was lovely, but 03 was a very hot summer I remember. We also had a cracking thunder storm one evening, but the tent stayed dry..
Tim
I've not sailed into Eyemouth, but I camped at Coldingham just up the road in 2003 for three nights, had the best F&Cs I've had in years at the Italian Pizza/Ice cream parlour & F&C shop at the harbour. Said 'hello' to the resident harbour seal. World of Boats was just being advertised, but I don't think it had opened.
We swam in the sea at Coldingham Bay, just to the south of St Abbs ..its was lovely, but 03 was a very hot summer I remember. We also had a cracking thunder storm one evening, but the tent stayed dry..
Tim
Kilter
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My uncle Wesley was the coastguard there many years ago
suse
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Can you get a boat into the hole in the cliffs, bottom left of the picture? (on a calm day).
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I don't know but it might be fun to try. It would need to be a very small boat though I think.
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It's called Weasel Loch, and I've dived out of there lots of times - you used to have to stagger and slip down the cliff, but now there are steps. There's a great swim-through to the next bay, (it's that cleft across the hills to the left of the long narrow bit) if you don't want to go round the outside, but best done on a calm day - the surge is fabulous! This looks like a very low tide. No point in trying to take even a little boat in there - it gets extremely shallow and very rocky.
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Can you get a boat into the hole in the cliffs, bottom left of the picture? (on a calm day).
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I don't know but it might be fun to try. It would need to be a very small boat though I think.
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It's called Weasel Loch, and I've dived out of there lots of times - you used to have to stagger and slip down the cliff, but now there are steps. There's a great swim-through to the next bay, (it's that cleft across the hills to the left of the long narrow bit) if you don't want to go round the outside, but best done on a calm day - the surge is fabulous! This looks like a very low tide. No point in trying to take even a little boat in there - it gets extremely shallow and very rocky.
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KenMcCulloch
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Can you get a boat into the hole in the cliffs, bottom left of the picture? (on a calm day).
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I don't know but it might be fun to try. It would need to be a very small boat though I think.
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It's called Weasel Loch, and I've dived out of there lots of times - you used to have to stagger and slip down the cliff, but now there are steps. There's a great swim-through to the next bay, (it's that cleft across the hills to the left of the long narrow bit) if you don't want to go round the outside, but best done on a calm day - the surge is fabulous! This looks like a very low tide. No point in trying to take even a little boat in there - it gets extremely shallow and very rocky.
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Suzy, you never cease to amaze. And now all your many followers are thinking about rubber suits...... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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Can you get a boat into the hole in the cliffs, bottom left of the picture? (on a calm day).
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I don't know but it might be fun to try. It would need to be a very small boat though I think.
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It's called Weasel Loch, and I've dived out of there lots of times - you used to have to stagger and slip down the cliff, but now there are steps. There's a great swim-through to the next bay, (it's that cleft across the hills to the left of the long narrow bit) if you don't want to go round the outside, but best done on a calm day - the surge is fabulous! This looks like a very low tide. No point in trying to take even a little boat in there - it gets extremely shallow and very rocky.
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Suzy, you never cease to amaze. And now all your many followers are thinking about rubber suits...... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
whipper_snapper
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I spent a month there one week, tied up to the wall waiting for a gale to go away. There is a strange sort of 'museum of fishing' on the fish docks with great showers and bogs! The only other thing I remember is a bl**dy long walk from town carrying 13Kg gas cylinders in horizontal rain. And 2 or 3 very nice pubs.
