Sango Bay Durness
Picturesque views of Sango Bay at the remote northern Scottish coastal village of Durness, within the county of Sutherland. Video and photography by Alistair & Jan Campbell of UK City Images (ukcityimages.com).
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse and Sango Bay.
At the most westerly point on the British mainland, Ardnamurchan Lighthouse has been guiding ships safely through the waters off Scotland’s west coast since 1849.
Sango Bay is a beautiful beach by Durness.
Northern lights Sango Bay, Durness, Scotland 2017 Aurora Borealis
A mild aurora shot from the view point just outside the sango Sands oasis campsite, Durness Scotland
Northern Lights Over Sango Sands by Kingsley Summers
Northern Light Photographs and time lapse images provided by Kingsley Summers who visited Sango Sands in early 2016. Watch the impressive spectacle as the multi-coloured lights bathe the Durness Coast around Sango Sands Oasis Camping and Caravan Site. You too can join in a long list that includes Rock Band Queen's lead Guitar Player Bryan May and the late astronomer Sir Patrick Moore in using this Durness facility as the ideal place to see the dancing lights. Also ideal for Scotland's Route 66 - The North Coast 500
Places to see in ( Durness - UK )
Places to see in ( Durness - UK )
Durness is a village and civil parish in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north coast of the country in the traditional county of Sutherland around 120 miles north of Inverness. The area is remote and the parish is huge and sparsely populated covering an area from east of Loch Eriboll to Cape Wrath, the most north-westerly point of the Scottish mainland. The population is dispersed and includes a number of townships including Kempie, Eriboll, Laid, Rispond, Sangobeg, Leirinmore, Smoo, Sangomore, Durine, Balnakeil and Keoldale.
The area has been inhabited since stone age times and there are many places of historic interest. Durness was formerly a part of the bishopric of Caithness and the old house at Balnakeil was originally the bishop's summer residence. The church at Balnakeil dates back to the Culdean monks but the existing ruined church is said to have been built by the monks from Dornoch Cathedral in the 13th century. On Faraid Head is Seannachaisteal, presumably a broch, but it is now completely enveloped in sand and no dig has ever been carried out to see what it was and from which time in history. A few years ago, the body of a young Viking boy was discovered exposed by the erosion of the sand dunes at Faraid. At Sangobeg beach, the body of a Pictish boy was discovered.
At Ceannabeinne lies Clach a Breitheanas or the Judgement Stone. This was said to be where judgement was meted out to malefactors and those found guilty were thrown over the cliff to their doom below. The parish of Durness was for centuries a part of Dùthaich MhicAoidh, the land of the Clan Mackay, who held their title to the land extending from Melvich in the east to Kylesku in the west.
The main sources of employment in the village are crofting and tourism. It is the largest village in the northwestern corner of Scotland, has a population of around 400, and is on the A838 road. It is located on the north coast between the towns of Thurso 72 miles (116 km) to the east) and Ullapool 68 miles (109 km) to the south. This area is notable for being the most sparsely populated region in Western Europe.[citation needed] Until some 50 years ago, Durness was a predominantly Gaelic speaking area.
Tourists are catered for by a campsite spectacularly sited on the cliffs above the beach (with easy access down to the beach), an SYHA hostel, housed by some converted army buildings, bed and breakfast accommodation and two hotels and restaurants, Mackay's and the Smoo Cave Hotel. The village is also used as a base by visitors to Cape Wrath.
The main attractions in Durness are Smoo Cave, a conjoined sea cave and freshwater cave with a small river running through it and a waterfall in wet weather, unspoilt beaches backed by cliffs and the local sea birds, seals, porpoises and minke whales. The surrounding coastline is some of Europe's most isolated and spectacular, with the nearby Clo Mor Cliffs being the highest on the British mainland, at some 922 feet (281 m) high.
Balnakeil Old Church, is a scheduled monument with the grave of Donuill Mac Morraichaidh, a serial bandit and murderer, inside one wall of the church so, it is said that his enemies couldn't walk over his grave. The area around Loch Croispol and Loch Borrallie abounds in archeological interest, from brochs to round houses to medieval and pre-clearances settlements. The Balnakeil Craft Village can be found approximately one mile outside Durness and is a collection of former MoD units dating from the 1950s, which now house various independent shops.
Durness is on the A838 road. This links the parish to the A836 at Tongue to the east and loops around the coast through Rhiconich near Kinlochbervie to meet the A836 again north of Lairg to the south. The road is single track along most of its length. Bus services are sparse in the area, although one bus a day links Durness with the Far North railway line at Lairg railway station. This provides rail services north to Wick and south to Inverness.
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Sango Sands Beach Durness - Timelapse
Sandwood Bay Beach
Top Beach in Scotland on the Far Northwest Coast, a 4 mile walk out from the Car Park.
The perfect day for Sandwood Bay.
I was on Holiday at Dornoch on the northeast of Scotland during a warm spell.
Early in the morning their was a lot of sea mist on the east coast, so decided to travel across to the west coast with Sandwood Bay Beach being my priority.
I took the A838 road up through the mountains. This is a single lane road with some great views.
The Car Park for Sandwood Bay is at the very small hamlet of Blairmore that is not on any sign posts. Just follow signs to Kinlochbervie, then travel 3 miles further on to Blairmore.
Most people state Sandwood Bay is 3 miles out from the car park at Blairmore, but it is at least 4 miles out.
The temperature was in the 80s / 27, with hardly a cloud in the sky.
When I reached the beach, there was a surfer practicing on about 6 foot waves.
This was a perfect day for photos, blue skies, blue Atlantic Ocean, and 6 foot white waves.
Just as I was about to walk back to the car park, a young woman I had passed on the walk out had reached the beach and decided to get straight into the sea to cool down.
The image it provided was the icing on the cake, a young woman in the Altantic Ocean in the far northwest of Scotland, with a large white wave approaching, and the sea stack in the distance.
The 8 mile walk was well worth the effort to see what is claimed to be the top beach on the Scottish mainland.
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Scotland Part 6 - Durness, Inverewe Gardens & Ardvreck Castle
Our 2-week tour of Scotland continues as we travel from Balmacara to Ullapool and then on to Thurso. We visited Durness, Inverewe Gardens and the ruins of Ardvreck Castle, saw peat being dug, more Highland Cows and wind turbines facing out over the North Atlantic.
Music by Troy MacGillivray from his album Eleven.
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Cape Wrath and Durness Cycling
Photos taken by myself on a recent cycling trip up to Cape Wrath in Scotland. Most of the shots are taken when we'd stopped cycling. Durness beach, then onto Kearvaig beach and back over to Durness. Atlantic Ocean shots, golden beaches, Mountain Bothys and Random Wellies feature :). ELP is deliberately missing the H ;-)
Music is a couple of Mike Oldfield tracks that I rather like.
Going full screen will cause some softening of the pics.
Smoo Cave, Durness and The Cave of Bones, Inchnadamph
The second video of some of the highlights of our trip around the north of Scotland this Easter. Some views from Sango Sands camp site at Durness, a trip down Smoo Cave and a walk to The Cave of Bones near Inchnadamph.
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Northern Lights - Partial Solar Eclipse - Durness Scotland
Timelapse from three Aurora displays and a bit of video from the Solar Eclipse shot around Durness in the North West of Scotland.
6.Tag in Schottland 2018 InselTrip nach Mull, Lunga, Staffa und Iona mit Staffatours
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Old Photographs Durness Sutherland North West Highlands Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Durness, Scottish Gaelic: Diùranais, in the old county of Sutherland in the North West Highlands. Durness is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the country in the traditional county of Sutherland around 120 miles north of Inverness. The area is remote and the parish is huge and sparsely populated covering an area from east of Loch Eriboll to Cape Wrath, the most north westerly point of the Scottish mainland. The population is dispersed and includes a number of townships including Kempie, Eriboll, Laid, Rispond, Sangobeg, Leirinmore, Smoo, Sangomore, Durine, Balnakeil, and Keoldale. Smoo Cave is a large combined sea cave and freshwater cave in Durness. Emigration from this parish began in 1772 when 200 people left for South Carolina. This was before the notorious clearances when people were forcibly evicted to make way for sheep farming. Despite having been on the government side during the Jacobite Uprising of 1745, the Clan Mackay were hit by the economic downturn which crippled the Highlands in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden. Poor management of the Mackay estates did not help and in keeping with elsewhere in the Highlands, sheep farming was seen as the salvation. The first enforced clearance was in 1820 in the West Moine district of the parish, followed by the Keoldale Estate clearances and in 1841, the Rispond Estate Clearance. The latter was, however, a clearance too many and it sparked off a series of events known as the Durness Riots, the first real resistance to clearances in the Highlands. The population, however, peaked in 1881 with 1109 people and then gradually declined. The biggest drop came in the aftermath of the First World War when emigration to the Scottish Lowlands, England and Canada was particularly popular. This was the home of the powerful and warlike Clan Mackay, and as such was named in Gaelic, Dùthaich 'Ic Aoidh, the Homeland of Mackay. Even today this part of Sutherland is known as Mackay Country, and, unlike other areas of Scotland where the names traditionally associated with the area have become diluted, there is still a preponderance of Mackays in the Dùthaich. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
Durness Wild Camp July09
Wild camping spot just south of Durness
Durness Scotland GBR
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Durness Beach Drone 4K 19th July 2018
a quick flight around the beach :)
SANDWOOD BAY [2010]
Its been a number of years since I was last at Sandwood Bay but the moorland walk with views of Foinavon and that dramatic approach to the dunes and distant surfs is still as spectacular as ever. Sandwood is an active crofting estate on John Muir Trust land and from the car-park area and toilet block at Blairmore, its an approximate 9-mile (perhaps slightly less) return hike to those sands on this natural bay located in the far north-west coast of Scotland.
From the car-park at Blairmore, Sandwood is signposted and a moorland path passes numerous sandy bay'd lochs before the views of the haunted Sandwood Cottage lead to those first views of the Bay and in clear weather, the discernible distant lighthouse at the Cape. Once on the beach the view of sea stack Am Buachaille, the Herdsman, becomes evident; Patey made the first ascent of the stack and at least one subsequent party has been caught out by the low tide and had to overnight on top! From the beach though, the first impression of the stack is that it looks like a distant ship sailing around the promontory.
The Ghost of a Mariner apparently still frequents Sandwood Cottage on stormy nights and according to local legend he is all that remains of an Armada Galleon that ran aground here complete with, Fifers take note, its treasure that is still believed to be buried in the sand dunes awaiting discovery! Aye right. Another story (this one even more unbelievable) about the cottage comes from Marc Alexander (in his book Enchanted Britain) about 2 hikers who passed the night there, and awoke to find the ruins shaking, and the sound of a wild horse stamping above them. This sounds remarkably like the description of the Each Uisge, or the Scottish water horse of folklore, a dangerous shape shifting entity often in the form of a horse. Absolute nonsense eh.
Of course before the lighthouse was built the beach received the wrecks of many ships that foundered along this treacherous coast, a fact that is acknowledged in the writings of Seton Gordon. Sandwood is a place of natural beauty, and a place, too of great loneliness such as is akin to Polar lands, rather than Scotland. Lying almost buried in the sand here are the wrecks of many vessels. These wrecks are of great age. These wrecks give the traveller a strange impression he feels that the shore is haunted by the spirits of ships, which lie here, slowly, very slowly, disintegrating. Sandwood is from Sand-vatn Sand-water, a name given it by the Norsemen during their time in this country. Almost linked to Sandwood Bay is Sandwood Loch, where a small river flows a hundred yards from loch to ocean. It is evident that when the wrecks occurred the sea-level was higher than it is at the present day, and Sandwood loch was a sea loch. It may even be that the vessels were making for the shelter of the sea loch, and were wrecked at the stormy bar. Some of the wrecks lie almost buried in the sand far above the reach of the highest tide. It is evident that the ocean is receding on this part of the coast.
Having spent a week on Paterson's infamous Cape Wrath Trail many years ago it would be great to return to Sandwood and do those final 11-miles to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath, M.O.D. red flags permitting and of course avoiding the unexploded shells that are lying around! As the SMC quote walk with extra care in this area!! En route just a couple of miles before the Cape is reached is the site of the shipwreck of one of the vessels of the fleet of the Norse King Haco who fought the battle of Largs in 1263. Seton Gordon continues Cape Wrath takes its name from a Norse name , Hvarf, meaning turning point. In Gaelic the name is written Am Parbh. The lighthouse on Cape Wrath is built at a height of 363ft above the sea, and the light itself is 400ft above sea-level.
For hundreds of years the bay has been known as a haunt of mermaids and they have apparently been reported in the area as late as the 19th century. One legend tells of a mermaid spotted on one of the two jutting rocks there a hundred years ago by Alexander Gunn who died in 1944 and who never changed his story maintaining that he had seen a mermaid of ravishing beauty!!! More recently (June 2009) a microlite plane crash landed on the beach; the pilot Keith Brown escaped injury although the plane had to be dismantled and carried the four plus miles back to the road by a team of 14 men.
Editor Tom Hall of LONELY PLANET, the influential travel guide, found most people recommended a walk along Scotland's wild coast. Brits are fast discovering some of the country's lesser-known attractions and Scotland's beaches are, quite rightly, recognised as one of the best. Sandwood Bay, near Cape Wrath, Sutherland, has previously won plaudits for its isolation and unspoiled character.
Last words and testament by Seton Gordon I believe that Sandwood Bay is the most beautiful place on all the west coast of the Scottish mainland.
Durness, Balnakeil beach in the first Atlantic storm of 2013
Durness Beach 2007 767
January 2007 on a windy beach
NC 500 Scotland Day 5 & 6
Undiscovered magic Scotland
Scotland is steeped in some of the most intriguing history to be found.
Many times its hard to separate the mythical from fact, but together they create the bases for a bounty or folklore and historical characters.
The Nc 500 starts from Stirling, counter clockwise
Together with my oldest son and my dear wife .
From John o 'Groats our journey continued, Destination Sango Bay, the first stop at Dunnet Bay was once a Vikings landing site.
Scotland is so beautiful, what a spiritual experience, the Scots are so nice and wise people.
Coldbackie Beach.
Coldbackie (Scottish Gaelic: Callbacaidh) is a crofting township in Sutherland and is in the Scottish council area of Highland Scotland.
Coldbackie Beach.with its beautiful white beaches, and winds from the winds
Sango Bay
A beautifully formed cove, Sango Bay offers panoramic views of the North Minch. With golden ... With its cliffs, rocks and sand dunes, Sango Bay is one of the most spectacular and varied beaches in the Highlands.
Music by Eric Malenstein
Video by Mario van Doorn