The Ship in the Mist
Posts from the ‘Banff’ category
The Beach Walker
The Dog Walker
The New (Unidentified) Chicken
We saw a new type of chicken today whilst we were walking the dog on the beach. We know it is a chicken but we’re wondering what kind of chicken it is…
The Lighthouse (Ver 2)
The BF9 – A Banff, Scotland Based Fishing Vessel
British fishing vessels have a name and a registration number. BF = Banff, Scotland and the registration number 9.
The Inner Harbour
The Crystal Sea
See a larger version of the image here.
The MacDuff Harbour Slip at Night
The Sidewinder
One of the older style of trawler (not many left now)
The Harbour at Night
MacDuff Harbour during the night
The Inner Harbour, MacDuff
The Doors (or Otter Boards)
These great big lumps of metal are towed behind trawlers. Their aquadynamic shape help to keep the ‘mouth’ of the trawl net open (a bit like wings flying through the water) and the hapless fish are caught in the net, never to escape.
The Bulbous Forefoot
The Bulbous Forefoot or, Bulbous Bow, greatly increases fuel efficiency and the fins help with stability. More about this technology (an American invention) here. The ‘snoot’ shown below belongs to a trawler but most ships are built with bulbous bows these days.
The Stairway
The Harbour
A spot of fisheye lens action at Banff Harbour
The Eternal Light
The Roman Well
We often walk along the beach from Banff to Whitehills (good place to buy fresh fish) and, on the way, we pass the old Roman Well (and I thought the Roman’s didn’t get this far north). It has been there since Roman times (AD 43 to AD 47) and so it was built around 2,000 years ago. They build things to last in Scotland!!! More about this small but nonetheless interesting building here.
I walked to Whitehills and back today and realised it is a 6 mile round-trip. Oh so very healthy!
The Mess of Sea Chickens
The Slippery Slope
It’s all down hill from here…
The Harbourside
The Mess of Creels
The Temporary Neighbour
The view from our house…
The Prop
The Trawler
And in mono…
