OBAN PIPE BAND SUMMER SHOW 1985
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easdale to colonsay rib rendezvous 2011
Islay
Our holiday on the Scottish island of Islay, May 2006
Arctic Canoe Race 1986 #1 Kilpisjärvi- Tornio Haparnda 540 km in 6 days.
Arctic Canoe Race 1986 Kilpisjärvi- Tornio /Haparanda 540 km in 6 days. It takes 40 sec. before picture.
Otters in Scotland = 90% of the UK Otter population.
Scotland and Otters - Terry Nutkins lost his fingers trying to tell us how important these mammals are. Here are Lewis & Isla from the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary nr Oban Argyll.
[NB the hibernation question in this vid - asked in the middle of December in the snow, you decide].
Crinan Canal Water Festival 2011
WATER was in plentiful supply as torrential rain fell on revellers gathered to celebrate the Crinan Canal Water Festival on Sunday July 31 2011
Despite the downpour dozens of families, visitors and tourists descended on the canal banks to take part in the event, held for the second time at the weekend.
Organised by the Heart of Argyll Tourism Alliance in partnership with British Waterways Scotland, the event featured a wealth of games and activities including canoeing, sailing, boat building competitions and the ever-popular Dalriada boat challenge.
A host of local food producers kept the festivalgoers warm with hot soup, burgers and butties.
Driving off ferry
Mississippi ferry crossing
Strange Whirlpool suck's down crab!
How Do Whirlpools Begin?
When flowing water hits against any kind of barrier, it twists away and spins around rapidly with great force. This creates a whirlpool. Whirlpools can occur in a small area where a piece of land juts out into a river, causing the water to swirl around.
They can also occur in the middle of the ocean when one current meets an opposing current, as when an incoming tide hits the ebb current of the last tide. Strong winds can also whip up the water into whirlpools.
The Maelstrom, a whirlpool off the coast of Norway, is one of the most famous, although writers such as Jules Verne, in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Edgar Allan Poe, in A Descent into the Maelstrom, have exaggerated its power. The Maelstrom is formed by the current hitting rocks and opposing tides.
In the United States, the Whirlpool Rapids of the Niagara River, between New York State and Canada, have such a violent current that they have actually carved a round basin out of the surrounding rock.
Learn more here
Crinan Canal Seconda Parte
Due barche di velisti italiani attraversano questa storica via d'acqua che taglia la penisola del Kintyre in Scozia
Crinan Film.wmv
This film traces the history of the 200 year old Crinan Canal, Britain's most beautiful shortcut. There were manuyproblems to overcome during its construction and some ingenious methods were used to overcome them. Some such as the 'Water Waster' are still in use today.
PK Perspective presents: Black Spout, Pitlochry, Scotland.
Black Spout is a small woodland walk in Pitlochry, Scotland.
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Ayres Rock Hostel & Campsite Orkney
A quick view of Ayres Rock
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The biggest WHIRLPOOL in the world? (MAELSTORM)
WOW! How Big?!
I STAND CORRECTED THIS IS THE BIGGEST WHIRLPOOL IN THE WORLD
A whirlpool is a swirling body of water produced by the meeting of opposing currents. The vast majority of whirlpools are not very powerful. More powerful ones are properly termed maelstroms. Vortex is the proper term for any whirlpool that has a downdraft. Whirlpools in oceans are usually caused by tides. Very small whirlpools can easily be seen when a bath or a sink is draining, but these are produced in a very different manner from those in nature. Smaller whirlpools also appear at the base of many waterfalls.[1] In the case of powerful waterfalls, like Niagara Falls, these whirlpools can be quite strong. The most powerful whirlpools are created in narrow, shallow straits with fast flowing water.
The five strongest whirlpools in the world[citation needed] are the Saltstraumen outside Bodø in Norway, which reaches speeds of 37 km/h (23 mph); the Moskstraumen off the Lofoten islands in Norway (the original maelstrom), which reaches speeds of 27.8 km/h (17.3 mph); the Old Sow in Eastport, Maine, United States, which has been measured with a speed of up to 27.6 km/h (17.1 mph); the Naruto whirlpools in Japan,[2] which have a speed of 20 km/h (12 mph); and the Corryvreckan in Scotland, which reaches speeds of 18 km/h (11 mph).
Powerful whirlpools have killed unlucky seafarers, but their power tends to be exaggerated by laymen. There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a whirlpool. Tales like those by Paul the Deacon, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe are entirely fictional. The closest equivalent might have been[original research?] the short-lived whirlpool that sucked in a portion of Lake Peigneur in New Iberia, Louisiana, USA after a drilling mishap in 1980. This was not a naturally-occurring whirlpool, but a man-made disaster caused by breaking through the roof of a salt mine. The lake then behaved like a gigantic bathtub being drained, until the mine filled and the water levels equalized.
Dangers
In popular imagination, but only rarely in reality, whirlpools can have the dangerous effect of destroying boats. Whirlpools are natural disasters[citation needed]. In the 8th century, Paul the Deacon, who had lived among the Belgii, described tidal bores and the maelstrom for a Mediterranean audience unused to such violent tidal surges:
Not very far from this shore... toward the western side, on which the ocean main lies open without end, is that very deep whirlpool of waters which we call by its familiar name the navel of the sea. This is said to suck in the waves and spew them forth again twice every day... They say there is another whirlpool of this kind between the island of Britain and the province of Galicia, and with this fact the coasts of the Seine region and of Aquitaine agree, for they are filled twice a day with such sudden inundations that any one who may by chance be found only a little inward from the shore can hardly get away. I have heard a certain high nobleman of the Gauls relating that a number of ships, shattered at first by a tempest, were afterwards devoured by this same Charybdis. And when one only out of all the men who had been in these ships, still breathing, swam over the waves, while the rest were dying, he came, swept by the force of the receding waters, up to the edge of that most frightful abyss. And when now he beheld yawning before him the deep chaos whose end he could not see, and half dead from very fear, expected to be hurled into it, suddenly in a way that he could not have hoped he was cast upon a certain rock and sat him down. Paul the Deacon. -
Spring Drive On A9 Road South From Blair Atholl To Perth Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a beautiful Spring afternoon road trip drive South on the A9 road from Blair Atholl with side trips through Pitlochry, Dunkeld and Birnam on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire. The A9 is a major road running from central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. At 273 miles, it is the longest road in Scotland and the fifth longest A road in the United Kingdom. Historically it was the main road between Edinburgh and John o' Groats, and has been called the spine of Scotland. Drive with great care and patience on this road as it regularly appears in lists of Scotland's most dangerous roads.
crinan canal
boat going through a lock at crinnan canal
WHIRLPOOL! AMAZING! (Biggest Whirlpool In The World)
whirlpool revolving current in an ocean, river, or lake. It may be caused by the configuration of the shore, irregularities in the bottom of the body of water, the meeting of opposing currents or tides, or the action of the wind upon the water. There are no true whirlpools really dangerous to shipping; the Maelstrom, near Norway, and Charybdis , near Sicily, are subjects of legend and myth, and Corrievrekin , near Scotland, was feared by the sailors of small boats. The Whirlpool Rapids below Niagara Falls are remarkable for their volume and violence, caused by an irregularity in the Niagara River channel. There is also a whirlpool below Victoria Falls in S Africa.
A whirlpool and swirling body of water usually produced by ocean tides. The vast majority of whirlpools are not very powerful. More powerful ones are more properly termed maelstroms. Vortex is the proper term for any whirlpool that has a downdraft. (Technically, these approximate to a 'free vortex', in which the tangential velocity (v) increases as the centre line is approached, so that the angular momentum (rv) is constant). Very small whirlpools can easily be seen when a bath or a sink is draining, but these are produced in a very different manner from those in nature. Smaller whirlpools also appear at the base of many waterfalls. In the case of powerful waterfalls, like Niagara Falls, these whirlpools can be quite strong. The most powerful whirlpools are created in narrow shallow straits with fast flowing water.
The five strongest whirlpools in the world are the Saltstraumen outside Bodø in Norway, which reaches speeds of 37 km/h; the Moskstraumen off the Lofoten islands in Norway (the original maelstrom), which reaches speeds of 27.8 km/h; the Old Sow in New Brunswick, Canada, which has been measured with a speed of up to 27.6 km/h; the Naruto whirlpool in Japan, which has a speed of 20 km/h; and the Corryvreckan in Scotland, which reaches speeds of 16 km/h.
Powerful whirlpools have killed unlucky seafarers, but their power tends to be exaggerated by laymen. There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a whirlpool. Tales like those by Paul the Deacon, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe are entirely fictional. The closest equivalent might have been the short-lived whirlpool that sucked in a portion of Lake Peigneur in New Iberia, Louisiana, USA after a drilling mishap in 1980. This was not a naturally-occurring whirlpool, but a man-made disaster caused by breaking through the roof of a salt mine. The lake then behaved like a gigantic bathtub being drained, until the mine filled and the water levels equalized. Although some boats and semi trailers were pulled into it in the classic whirlpool stereotype, no human lives were lost.
world biggest whirlpool?!
Sailing around Britain, single handed in aid of Crohns and Colitis Leg 27 Crinan Canal 1
The biggest whirlpool in the world? AMAZING!
More whirlpool videos and info here
maelstrom /ˈmeɪlstrɒm/ is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. The power of tidal whirlpools tends to be exaggerated by laymen.[1] There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a maelstrom, although smaller craft are in danger [2] and tsunami generated maelstroms may even threaten larger crafts. Tales like those by Paul the Deacon, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe are entirely fictional.
One of the earliest uses of the Scandinavian word (malström or malstrøm) was by Edgar Allan Poe in his story A Descent into the Maelström (1841). In turn, the Nordic word is derived from the Dutch maelstrom, modern spelling maalstroom, from malen (to grind) and stroom (stream), to form the meaning grinding current or literally mill-stream, in the sense of milling (grinding) grain.[3]
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world biggest whirlpool?!
who knows what is beneath the water surface. This is what causes the vortex. If you fall in, you will die!
A maelstrom /ˈmeɪlstrɒm/ is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. The power of tidal whirlpools tends to be exaggerated by laymen.[1] There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a maelstrom, although smaller craft are in danger [2] and tsunami generated maelstroms may even threaten larger crafts. Tales like those by Paul the Deacon, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe are entirely fictional.
One of the earliest uses of the Scandinavian word (malström or malstrøm) was by Edgar Allan Poe in his story A Descent into the Maelström (1841). In turn, the Nordic word is derived from the Dutch maelstrom, modern spelling maalstroom, from malen (to grind) and stroom (stream), to form the meaning grinding current or literally mill-stream, in the sense of milling (grinding) grain.
A drop in the ocean,
A change in the weather,
I was praying that you and me might end up together.
It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,
But I'm holding you closer than most,
'Cause you are my heaven.
I don't wanna waste the weekend,
If you don't love me, pretend
A few more hours, then it's time to go.
As my train rolls down the East Coast,
I wonder how you'll keep warm.
It's too late to cry, too broken to move on.
And still I can't let you be,
Most nights I hardly sleep.
Don't take what you don't need from me.
It´s just s drop in the ocean,
A change in the weather,
I was praying that you and me might end up together.
It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,
But I'm holding you closer than most,
'Cause you are my heaven.
Misplaced trust and old friends,
Never counting regrets,
By the grace of God, I do not rest at all.
New England as the leaves change;
The last excuse that I'll claim,
I was a boy who loved a woman like a little girl.
And still I can't let you be,
Most nights I hardly sleep,
Don't take what you don't need from me.
It´s just s drop in the ocean,
A change in the weather,
I was praying that you and me might end up together.
It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,
But I'm holding you closer than most,
'Cause you are my
Heaven doesn't seem far away anymore no no.
Heaven doesn't seem far away.
Heaven doesn't seem far away anymore no no.
Heaven doesn't seem far away.
A drop in the ocean,
A change in the weather,
I was praying that you and me might end up together.
It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,
But I'm holding you closer than most,
'Cause you are my heaven.
You are my heaven
Know what I'm saying!
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Crinan Canal
Members of the OGA Round Britain Challenge travel through the Crinan Canal.
[Poe Appreciation Week] - A Descent Into The Maelstrom, Part 2
A classic tale adventure tale of three brothers and their encounter with the gargantuan Norwegian whirlpool, Moskoe-strom, continues.
Music:
Long Note Two - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Stormfront - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
The Descent - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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