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Tuesday, 13/May/2008
The Reappearing Islay Wreck
Last Friday I posted a picture of Machir Bay and mentioned the changes the winter storm which battered Islay this year brought to the beach. In the entry I promised to revisit an entry from last year, which I'm going to do today. I guess I could call it the Islay version of now you see, now you don't, now you do:
Regular readers (or those who made the effort to trawl through the archives) will recognise the picture from the Friday Islay Picture(s) (36) entry. It shows a wreck in the sand at Machir Bay in summer 1999. Over the years it pretty much disappeared and in October 2007 it looked like this (another picture you might remember):
Then the winter storms came. Back in March I noticed Scott Liddell's blog entry with this beautiful picture of Machir Bay. It looked like the wreck was quite visible in the picture, so I wondered if it had reappeared. During my visit to Islay in April I went down to the beach to check:
As you can see the wreck has been dug out again by the winter storms. I'd say there's a foot or two (that's 30-60 cm) of sand gone and it's pretty much back to how it looked in 1999. It looks quite nice with the crags as a background:
To be continued?
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