 glory, as the ceaseless pounding of Atlantic waves has sculpted it's sandstone cliffs into spectacular shapes. Yesnaby has an extraordinary array of sea-stacks, caves, natural arches, blow-holes and the narrow, trench like inlets.. Photographed here as evening falls and another storm approaches. 5x7
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A winter storm wrecks havoc on the Churchill Barriers. The barriers were built in the 1940s primarily as naval defences to protect the anchorage at Scapa Flow, but now link Orkney Mainland in the north to the island of South Ronaldsay via Burray and the two smaller islands of Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm.
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The eastern passages were protected by measures including sunken block ships, booms and anti-submarine nets, but U-47 entered at night at high tide by navigating between the block ships. On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow, by the German U-boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien. U-47 had entered Scapa Flow through Holm Sound, one of several eastern entrances to Scapa Flow. The stormy lighting with rays of light coming down on the mast of a sunken boat. 5x7
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Skara Brae
A large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It consists of ten clustered houses, and was occupied from roughly 3100-2500 BC. It is Europe's most complete Neolithic village and the level of preservation is such that it has gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status. The village of Skara Brae lay hidden under grass and soil until 1850, when in the winter of that year a major storm stripped the grass from a large mound known as Skerrabra 5x7
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