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A passage from Leverburgh to Berneray

Images of buoys, beacon, rocks and skerries seen on the CalMac ferry from Harris across the Sound of Harris to Berneray and the southern Outer Hebrides. A small gap of 11.6km as the guillemot might fly, but the ferry has to take a much more devious route to navigate through the shallow passage - about 16.5km along the route shown on Google Earth, which seems very close to the route on the day. No regular ferry time-tabling for the ferries is possible, because of the changing tide times through the lunar cycle - passages at low tides are not wise! The precise location of the named buoys was obtained from listings in the Aids to Navigation Review 2015-2020, [obtainable at nlb.org.uk [Policies/Documents/GLA-AtoN-Review-2015], but I have been unable to find a direct link to the pdf. Published 2015 © Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, Trinity House, Commissioners of Irish Lights]. They were plotted on the Google Earth map and the locations of the other images calculated by the time intervals between the known points of the buoys, and GPS observations made en route.
by M J Richardson

Created: Tue, 30 Aug 2016, Updated: Tue, 30 Aug 2016


24 images use this description:

NF9778 : SUILVEN buoy in the Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NG0079 : Grodhaigh, in the Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NF9378 : Portain Port Buoy by M J Richardson
2016
NG0085 : Janes Tower, Leverburgh/An t-ob by M J Richardson
2016
NF9980 : Buoy L1 off Sgeir Chruaidh by M J Richardson
2016
NF9879 : Buoy L1 in the Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NF9379 : TRENCH starboard buoy by M J Richardson
2016
NG0084 : Skerries of Langa Sgeir by M J Richardson
2016
NF9478 : Port buoy NF6 in the Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NG0081 : NW RODEL ROCKS starboard buoy by M J Richardson
2016
NG0085 : Bo Stanain buoy on the approach to Leverburgh by M J Richardson
2016
NG0085 : South Harris, from the ferry leaving Leverburgh/An t-Ob by M J Richardson
2016
NF9879 : CABBAGE buoy and Gousman by M J Richardson
2016
NG0085 : The Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NF9879 : Skerries in the Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NF9378 : Portain Starboard Buoy by M J Richardson
2016
NF9878 : Cabbage South Channel marker by M J Richardson
2016
NG0086 : Sgeir Mhic Coma by M J Richardson
2016
NF9478 : Starboard buoy NF5 in the Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NF9879 : CABBAGE buoy in the Sound of Harris by M J Richardson
2016
NG0084 : STUMBLES buoy by M J Richardson
2016
NG0084 : Crossing the Sound of Harris by David Purchase
2010
NG0085 : Eilean a' Charmain, Leverburgh by David Purchase
2010
NG0079 : A sharp turn by the ferry! by David Purchase
2010


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