Sinclairs Bay
Sinclairs Bay is a bay on the eastern coast of Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands.
Geography
Starting in the north, at Ness Head, the bay is bounded by Freswick Bay, and overlooked by Skirza Head, the bay proper sweeps south in a long elliptical curve, before sweeping east to pass the remains Castle Sinclair and terminating at Noss Head Lighthouse.
Sinclairs Bay has two primary geological features. Starting at the coastal village of Keiss, running northeast, a stony beach and coastal crags, become cliffs that are increasingly sheer the further north. South of Keiss, the cliffs even out in a large white sandy beach, called Keiss Beach, forming large Dunes of Reiss Beach further south. At Ackergill Tower, the beach again becomes stony and eventually forms into a series of cliffs and crags, further east.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sinclair's Bay.
- ^ Robert Sinclair (12 June 2013). The Sinclairs of Scotland. AuthorHouse. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4817-9623-1. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Castle Sinclair". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ^ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Noss Head". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.