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Burki Skerries
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3162
Category: Skerry
The foreground bay, Bungil, has a few skerries or stacks, but Burki Skerries... (more)
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Eilean Dubh na Ciste
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM3025
Category: Skerry
Eilean Dubh na Ciste is a rocky skerry at the NNE end of Bull Hole, a narrow... (more)
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Looking to the Sound of Iona from Torr Gaineamhach
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2921
Category: Skerry
Where the Ross of Mull granite has few joints, it weathers into Tors, often... (more)
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Skerries off the SW coast of Muckle Roe
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3063
Category: Promontory
The coast of Muckle Roe has so many stacks, skerries, promontories and other... (more)
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Threading skerries west of Erraid
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2820
Category: Skerry
On a trip collecting skerries around Erraid, we soon reached this pair west of... (more)
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Tidal skerry off Ynys Llanddwyn
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square SH3962
Category: Skerry
This rock is a skerry at high tide, but since it is now near low water, it is... (more)
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Seals hauled out on a skerry in Loch Dunvegan
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG2449
Category: Skerry
Paddling out from a launch about a kilometre north of Dunvegan Castle, we... (more)
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Nesting on a pointy skerry
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3620
Category: Skerry
There seem to be Fulmars nesting on almost every cliff or ledge in most parts of... (more)
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The Neapack from Loose Head
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3621
Category: Skerry
A day for walking round St. Ninian's Isle, looking down to see why we... (more)
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Arriving at Lunga Skerries
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3442
Category: Sea kayaking
Linking the scattered skerries from North Score Holm down to Hildasay makes all... (more)
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Black Skerry of Houlma Sound
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU2676
Category: Sea kayaking
On an anticlockwise circuit of the Ness of Hillswick, visiting the Drongs,... (more)
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Skerries north of Little Colonsay
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM3737
Category: Skerry
We've paddled across from Staffa in quite a big swell, and have managed to... (more)
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The Dubh Sgeir south of Erraid
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2718
Category: Skerry
I find myself visiting a lot of "black skerry" locations in my search... (more)
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Unnamed skerry south of Erraid
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2918
Category: Skerry
With a metre or so of swell, the waves were breaking well over the south side of... (more)
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Unnamed Skerry west of Eilean nam Muc
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2719
Category: Skerry
Another day, another paddling trip visiting small bits of rock in the sea. We... (more)
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Passing a skerry off Rubha na Tragha
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG4276
Category: Sea kayaking
A sea kayak trip from Staffin round the Trotternish peninsula via the exposed... (more)
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Threading a skerry below Meall Raineach
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG4573
Category: Sea kayaking
A sea kayak trip from Staffin round the Trotternish peninsula to Port Duntulm... (more)
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Between cliff and skerry
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG4673
Category: Sea kayaking
A sea kayak trip from Staffin round the Trotternish peninsula to Port Duntulm... (more)
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Paddling towards Roe Ness
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3242
Category: Sea kayaking
Paddling out from Ayre of Deepdale, there are a variety of skerries in the Old... (more)
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Threading skerries in Erbusaig Bay
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG7529
Category: Skerry
Sea kayakers, having such narrow and shallow draughted vessels, can't... (more)
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The Bruddans
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU2077
Category: Skerry
Approaching Esha Ness from the south, The Bruddans are a group of low skerries... (more)
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Searching for the natural arch, Sanda Stour
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3441
Category: Sea kayaking
Sanda Stour was the last of a series of skerries forming a chain of links (and... (more)
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Daa Skerry
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3243
Category: Sea kayaking
Daa Skerry lies quite a lot further from the cliffs than most, so offers little... (more)
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Skerry off Kame
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3343
Category: Skerry
This is the final outcrop of Walls Formation of Middle Old Red Sandstone... (more)
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Paddling past Scarfi Skerries
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU5541
Category: Sea kayaking
Paddling anticlockwise round the island of Noss, Scarfi Skerries and East Punds... (more)
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Paddling past Gordi Stack and Hevda
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU2774
Category: Sea kayaking
The amount (and unpredictability) of swell kept us on the outside of Hevda, the... (more)
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Rankin's Rocks
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2818
Category: Skerry
Most skerries in this part of the world seem to have gaelic names, so this pair... (more)
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A'Chorr-sgeir
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2625
Category: Skerry
As part of a group of fourteen sea kayakers circumnavigating Iona, it's... (more)
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The western rocks of Eilean Chalbha
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2726
Category: Skerry
Although Eilean Chalbha rises to 20m, this reef to its NW barely breaks the... (more)
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Skerry north of Stac an Aoineidh
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2522
Category: Skerry
There's lots of rock-hopping to be done around the south and west of Iona,... (more)
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The Dubh Sgeir SW of Iona
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM2421
Category: Sea kayaking
Endlessly searching for unphotographed squares from a sea kayak, I find that I... (more)
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Rock-hopping through skerries between Little Bernera and Gaisgeir
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NB1541
Category: Sea kayaking
Coming round the east side of Little Bernera on a day trip out from Bostadh, we... (more)
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Nista Skerries
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU2777
Category: Skerry
The skerries peek out of the waves of Sand Wick, the bay on the west of the... (more)
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Isle of Niddister and Windy Geo
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU2775
Category: Skerry
Below the cliffs of the Ness of Hillswick lies a fantastic playground of stacks... (more)
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Heading for Tulm Island
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG4075
Category: Sea kayaking
A sea kayak trip from Staffin round the Trotternish peninsula to Port Duntulm... (more)
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One of the Murbie Stacks
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3062
Category: Skerry
The Murbie Stacks are not what most of us would think of as stacks - tall,... (more)
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Stack of Niddister
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU2875
Category: Skerry
The Stack of Niddister (seen here from a peninsula which juts out southeast into... (more)
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Skerries on east side of Ness of Sound
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU4739
Category: Skerry
The gently dipping Middle Old Red Sandstone of east Mainland produces skerries... (more)
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Skerry hopping round Rhoscolyn Beacon
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square SH2674
Category: Sea kayaking
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Rock-hopping towards Rubh na Cearc, Ross of Mull
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM3225
Category: Sea kayaking
Like most sea kayaking trips, we'd chosen our time of day to get the tides... (more)
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Skerry on the way to Skye Bridge
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG7427
Category: Sea kayaking
After a quick tour to the Black Islands as we waited for the tide race to get... (more)
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Seals at North Score Holm
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3443
Category: Seals
As we paddled quietly past, linking skerries by short crossings as an easy way... (more)
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Seals on North Score Holm
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU3443
Category: Seals
Linking the scattered skerries from North Score Holm down to Hildasay makes all... (more)
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Skerry-hopping at Loder Head
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU5243
Category: Sea kayaking
Last time I'd been to Bressay nine years ago, we didn't even get round... (more)
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Ruggen - the end of Ness of Sound
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square HU4738
Category: Headland (coastal feature)
Although the sea looks calm from this height on the Ness of Sound circular path,... (more)
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The southeastern tip of the northwestern one of Eilean Na Liathanaich
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM3525
Category: Skerry
Of the two Eilean Na Liathanaich, this is the one to the northwest and is a... (more)
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The northernmost rocks of Na Liathanaich
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM3625
Category: Skerry
Strictly, the northernmost rocks of the main island - the one with the... (more)
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Threading the channel past Flodaigh
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NB1141
Category: Sea kayaking
On our return from Seanna Chnoc via Bearasaigh, we'd just passed Sgeir nan... (more)
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Eastern tip of Sgeir nam Biast
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NG2356
Category: Skerry
About 40% of the way from a landing on Iosaigh to our take-out at Stein, Sgeir... (more)
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The northernmost rocks of Eilean Ban
by Andy Waddington
geograph for square NM3723
Category: Skerry
A reef with tidal skerries extends north of Eilean Ban (they are connected to... (more)
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