StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: North Berwick

Slightly lower down is this temporary sign as an information display.

High up on the wall by the Harbourmaster's Office is the North Berwick Harbour Barometer. It was installed circa 1950 by NH Butterworth, the Commodore of the East Lothian Yacht Club, and restored in 2021 by the Harbour Trust. [see next image for more details - from the info display]

There's a hole in my harbour, dear lizza, there's a hole ! Thanks to "Storm Ciarán" around 30th October 2023, the 400 year old sea-defences / harbour wall have a 16ft wide hole. Funding is being sought to make repairs and arrangements are being made, by moving boats, for example. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67259624

Bass Rock, from East Bay, North Berwick. One of the more significant gannet breeding colonies. Maybe, sometime soon & in good weather, I'll get a boat trip around the rock. [Geologically, it's a volcanic plug ...] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Rock The little white dot on the right of the island is the Lighthouse [Built & designed by David Stevenson in 1902 using locally available stone from demolishing the castle keep & other buildings, and gas lit until it was automated in 1988] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Rock_Lighthouse

Bronze statue of a bird watcher [twitcher] gazing through binoculars at Bass Rock in the distance, erected in 2014. In the breeding season, this rock hosted an enormous colony of gannets [Sula bassana] and other nesting seabirds. Sadly, avian flu, pollution and climate change [reduction in sand eels] have reduced the gannet numbers by around a third in the past few years [from 2019 - before covid - and this year, 2023]. The only bright news is that the gannet numbers are recovering slightly, and some birds appear to have developed a degree of immunity - their eyes have very dark blue or black iris].

Part of the St Andrew's Old Kirk with some interesting information panels [the rest is visible only as the lowest courses of the walls]. The Kirk was ruined after a storm in 1656 swept the entire eastern section into the sea. This is on the same headland as the seabird centre. www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/northberwick/standrewsoldkirk/index.html

This is the 1900 Lifeboat Station [?on the site of the 1860 lifeboat house?], refurbished and updated in 1991. Behind me and to the left, these yellow box markings lead to the lifeboat launching slipway [currently - Oct/Nov 2023 to early 2024 - under reconstruction, so the RNLI are using the slipway by the Harbourmaster's Office - good luck with that, the approach route had got two builder's vans in it at the time I took this image !] A little to my right behind me and you'll find the RNLI shop. From 1967 to 2013, the ILB here was "Blue Peter III" ... there were five of these ILBs, and collectively they were used to rescue 277 people. Since 1860, when the station was first established, three RNLI Gallantry awards and three GOLD Blue Peter Badges have been awarded to crew members. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Berwick_Lifeboat_Station