Easdale
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WAVERLEY is the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world. This photo was taken near Easdale as the Waverley made her way around the Firth of Lorne on a day trip from Oban.
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This is VIC32 steaming north towards Easdale. VIC 32 is the last sea-going coal-fired steam ‘Clyde Puffer’. /
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No White Vans Now here’s something you don’t see every day! Thankfully there are no white vans on the island of Easdale, off the west coast of Argyll, Scotland. The locals have devised a far more colourful and environmentally-friendly system of transporting their goods, as depicted here. Date: 21st August 2008 No White Vans was featured by The Scots Are Coming group. Click here to see the Easdale Ferry Shed
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The Ferry Shed The Ferry Shed, on the small island of Easdale provides shelter for passengers awaiting the ferry from Ellenabeich on Seil. It is colourfully adorned with “boat jumble”, presumably washed up on the shore. Easdale was the centre of a slate-mining community, which between the 1550s and 1911, extracted thousands of tons of slate from below sea level, just so we could all have a roof over our heads! By 1961 the population had fallen to a handful, but has now recovered to around 60. Date: 21st August 2008 Click here to see the most popular form of transport on Easdale
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The shipping forecast had it spot on – “Malin/Hebrides, South Westerly Severe Gale force 9 increasing Storm force 10, occasionally Violent Storm force 11”. / A good day to leave the boat in the marina and go exploring by land! Easdale is a particularly exposed piece of coast on the west of Scotland, where the sea has an uninterrupted run from Nova Scotia. To give you an idea of scale, the rocks in the foreground are a metre in diameter, they aren’t pebbles. Coincidentally, this ‘beach’ is where my wife and I had our first open water scuba dives .. fortunately the sea was a little calmer then!
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This was taken shortly after a very deep depression battered us with gales and storms for a few days. The seas were still high, but the sky was starting to clear. The view is from Easdale, south and west to (from the left) Lunga, Eilean Dubh Mor and the Garvellachs. The Garvellachs, or ‘Isles of the Sea’ have a fascinating history, and are one of the earliest outposts of Christianity in Scotland, reputedly containing the grave of Eithne, the mother of St Columba.
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Watching the sea pile in to Easdale’s normally sheltered harbour reminded me of the song oft sung by the Vital Spark’s crew: Oh! The Crinan Canal for me, / I don’t like the wild raging sea, / It would be too terrific to cross the Pacific, / Or sail to Japan or Fiji. / A life on the Spanish Main, / I think it would drive me insane, / The big foaming breakers would give me the shakers, / The Crinan Canal for me. For the curious, the harbour entrance is between the rocks in the foreground, and the little rock right of centre .. not the rocks with the breaking wave!
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Isle of Seil to the right to the left Isle of Easdale in the distance the Isle of Mull 3 isles in one photo ..eat my shorts / The Isle of Seil, Easdale Island, the Isle of Luing and Belnahua are the Slate Islands, once known as the Islands That Roofed The World. The Scottish Slate Islands Heritage Trust’s objective is to advance the education of the public on matters regarding the life and times of the people within the islands.
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Isle of Fladda The largest of the Slate Islands but the least (geographically) hospitable, the island is dominated by the lighthouse built by David and Thomas Stevenson in 1860. / The lighthouse is a white conical tower with a black lantern. Fladda sits between Belnahua and Luing in the Sound of Luing, and is home to a large colony of terns. The first recorded history that we could source of Fladda shows that it was owned by John Stevenson in 1858. Stevenson was a whiskey distiller in Oban. The island was originally spelt ‘Phladda’ but was changed by the Northern Lighthouse Board at the turn of the century because there is another island with a lighthouse on it called Phladda in the Firth of Clyde.
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Thank you Light and Reflection
by AlexanderargyllI would like to thank the hosts of Light and Reflection for featuring Ellenabiech….one of my favorite photo,s and took a…
I would like to thank the hosts of Light and Reflection for featuring Ellenabiech….one of my favorite photo,s and took almost 6 years to get this little island of Seil in these conditions and light. / Thank you / Alexander /
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Seil island in on the east side of the Firth of Lorn to the south west of Oban,Scotland, Seil Sound sits between the island and the mainland and is crossed by Clachan Bridge. Clachan Bridge is more popularly known as the Bridge Over The Atlantic. The original design for the bridge, by John Stevenson of Oban, was for a two-arched bridge but this was modified to one arch when it was built by Robert Mylne in 1792. / canonEos400D
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A panorama of easdale falls, in the lake district, england.
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Easdale on the island of Seil in the Slate Islands, off the Argyll Coast, Scotland. OLYMPUS E500 / ZUIKO 4/3 14-45mm
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Easdale Easdale is a small island in the Firth of Lorn, off the west coast of Argyll, Scotland, about 16 miles south of Oban. It is reached by passenger ferry from Seil Island, which is itself connected to the mainland by the 200 year old Clachan Bridge, the Bridge over the Atlantic. From the middle of the 17th century to the early 20th century, Easdale was an important centre for slate quarrying. The Island had as many as seven working quarries, some of which extended down to 300 feet below sea level. Together with other quarries on the neighbouring islands of Seil, Luing and Belnahua the Island gave its name to the famous Easdale Slate which was exported to Glasgow, Ireland and beyond. At the peak of the industry in the second half of the 19th century the population was in excess of 500. A storm in 1881 flooded the quarries, and thereafter the industry declined until the last slate was cut in the 1950s. By the early 1960s the population had dwindled to only 4. However since then the population has steadily increased and most of the dwelling houses have now been reconstructed and modernised. This shot was originally posted to the Bubble Jeopardy group so that members could guess where it is and what industry was prevalent here. Easdale was correctly identified by super sleuth MarieJo, a.k.a. bubblehex08. Date: 21st August 2008
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Ellenabeich The picturesque village of Ellenabeich on Seil Island, Argyll, Scotland about 15 miles south of Oban. Here a small passenger ferry runs to the island of Easdale, the centre of a large slate quarrying operation from the 17th century to the early 20th century. At the height of the industry, 10 steamers a week would load up with slate for shipment to Glasgow, Ireland and beyond. The best view of Ellenabeich is from the highest point on Easdale island. Unfortunately that’s where my battery ran out!! Date: 21st August 2008
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