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Photos of OrdOrd, Sleat Peninsula, Skye
On a recent visit to Skye we had the pleasure of joining an outing led by a ranger from Scottish Natural Heritage at Ord beach, on the Sleat Peninsula (thanks, Lindsey!). Here are some photos from that very enjoyable outing. We hope this helps give a flavour for the type of lovely scenery and natural life you can experience on Skye. It is well worthwhile simply donning a pair of wellies and poking about in tidepools along the shore when the tide is out. |
A tidepool shows some of the variety of sea life on view |
Colourful seaweed |
And yet more interestingly coloured seaweed! |
As the tide goes out you can see enormous numbers of barnacles clinging to rocks along the shore |
The beach at Ord, looking across towards Elgol. If the day was clearer you could see the Black Cuillins in the distance |
Another view of the beach at Ord. Ord is a very small community; really just a scattering of houses, but the location is quite special. |
seaweed acts as a picture fame for shells on the beach. indeed, it seems as if the entire beach is shells rather than sand1 |
Shells on the beach |
Believe it or not, there's a rock under all this! |
Shell's cling to a rock on the beach |
And still more shells on the beach |
As we tramped around the beach looking for sealife, we started to assemble a collection of starfish and crabs |
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