Stack off the cliffs at Yesnaby, Orkney. I believe it was used for a Rover car advert - with one of their cars perched on the top. (No. Stand corrected - the Rover one is a couple of miles down the coast from this - see orquil's comment.) The hole in the stack does not bode well for its long term future.
This photo was taken on December 4, 2007 in Yesnaby, Scotland, GB.
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artcphoto (66 months ago | reply)
great natural phenomana!
well seen!!
orquil (66 months ago | reply)
Steve -
No it was the North Gaulton rock stack - about 2km south of this one that the Rover car was airlifted onto by helicopter. The hole in this one has been there for as long as I can remember!
Nice photo, but a shame for you in a way that you encountered it with such a calm & docile sea state!
John
seligr (66 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the comment, artcphoto. And thanks for the correction John. Now I seem to remember - we often walk south along those cliffs (though never as far as Stromness which would require an equally long walk back). The tops of the two stacks are somewhat similar if I recall rightly.
rich886 (66 months ago | reply)
Excellent
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anglia24 (66 months ago | reply)
Beautiful capture of a unique and wonderful scene.
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Roger's Photos59 (66 months ago | reply)
A Beautiful place and beautifully captured.
Inglewood Mum (Chris) (66 months ago | reply)
Wonderful coastline
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ashton_martin (66 months ago | reply)
As you look at this you see how nature form's our landscape.
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Carlos Gotay Martínez (66 months ago | reply)
Beautiful image of a wonderful place!
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finepixtrix (66 months ago | reply)
I guess you'll just have to move here, seligr, so you can be on hand to capture the moment the stack collapses. Superb pic, too.
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seligr (66 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the many acknowledgements - and finepixtrix - it would likely be a failry rough day and I a touch older and in danger of toppling over myself :-)
Mike-Lee (66 months ago | reply)
Lovely sea stack! Saw this one briefly from other cliff! And I remember the advert! (Or reading the comments.. I wonder if it was the other we visited!)
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Walt K (66 months ago | reply)
Great shot of an impressive coast!!
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Mike-Lee (66 months ago | reply)
Ah! It was this one!
Now I have it's name too!
Yesnaby Castle!
fefo73 (66 months ago | reply)
Wonderful place, grat shot!
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~Leny~ [deleted] (64 months ago | reply)
Very beautiful...
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jaggystu71 (64 months ago | reply)
Great shot
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..::Wozz::.. (64 months ago | reply)
Vi esta foto no grupo LANDSCAPES DREAMS
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Shandchem (64 months ago | reply)
Lovely sea stack image!
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ClearlyLost (56 months ago | reply)
great find great capture
seligr (46 months ago | reply)
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by rock erosion and sea stacks
N!els (46 months ago | reply)
Beautiful place - seen in POP.
monika & manfred (46 months ago | reply)
I really wish to be back there some time very soon.... what a shot of a fantastic landscape, seligr!
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petelovespurple (43 months ago | reply)
Do you know if the castle is still there?
seligr (43 months ago | reply)
petellison: Indeed it is - despite the wave bashing it so often receives! There was a recent photo of such on the Orkney group.
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Sellinstix (30 months ago | reply)
I love the tones on the water, and the way the land seems to disappear into the sea......
Wonderful photography!
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