A ‘slow video’ looking at this headland, the waters around it, and the Cove Battery remains, including the Arctic Convoy Memorial.
Rubha nan Sasan is a headland at the seaward end of Loch Ewe in northwest Scotland. In the Second World War Loch Ewe became a refuge for allied shipping and a starting point for convoys to Russia. Two six-inch gun batteries were built here as part of defences for the area and the structural elements that remain here are said to be some of the most complete coastal defences in the UK.
A lot of my flying there was over the sea so this video is rather ‘slow’ in nature, taking time to look at the ebb and flow of waves and water.
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Great to see this part of the world again from where I spent childhood summers through someone else’s eyes. The next time that you’re driving through in Aultbea, you’ll notice that there’s a car port sticking out into Loch Ewe. My grandad built that with his own bare hands in around 1960 ish, and is till there today through Atlantic storms and harsh West Coast winters. In contrast the houses by the pier in Aultbea, which is largely sheltered, have needed to be repaired many times. Thanks again for sharing.
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Thanks: it was fairly magical up there compared with say the landlocked part of the world where I live. This is not Aulbea, but just down the coast in Cove this caught my eye.
There are abandoned houses everywhere it seems - some of them hundreds of years ago perhaps because of the clearances, others just a decade or two ago.
