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Taken from Whitehouse Point in grid square NT1478. Any further comment is superfluous!
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.2km<br/>Recently thinned woodland, Dalmeny Estate.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Long Craig Pier
©Thomas Stenhouse
Dist:0.2km<br/>The pier is used by the Scouts for boating expeditions.
©Bob Jones
Dist:0.2km<br/>With the Forth bridge in the background and the road bridge just visible behind it.
©James Allan
Dist:0.2km<br/>The isolated boulders between here and the slipway, which is in this square, may be erratics, but if so have not been moved far because they are of volnacic rock similar to the local bedrock. The Forth Bridges, of course, dominate the view here.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>There are several large bracket fungi, species at present unknown, on this tree stump by the path along the shore.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>Stones and gravel on the beach near Long Craig pier.
©James Allan
Dist:0.3km<br/>From here the bay is almost submerged, leaving just a few boulders high and dry. In the background is the Hound Point oil tanker berth, one end of which is in the next square.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Forth Bridge viewed from Long Craig Pier. ... It is big and it is clever. another view: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/38881 http://www.forthbridges.org.uk/railbridgemain.htm http://www.nls.uk/scotlandspages/timeline/1890.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Railway_Bridge
©Simon Johnston
Dist:0.3km<br/>A fisherman on the shore, and several more on the slipway, try their luck as the tide rises in the Forth estuary. The man in the foreggound told me that he had seen a large fish jumping just a few minutes before, but the water is shallow and there is too much seaweed to tempt it closer to the shore.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>Whitehouse Bay is bounded on the west by Long Craig Pier, and this view is from near the landward end of the pier. At high tide most of the shingly beach is under water, leaving a narrow crescent between the sea and the woods.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.3km<br/>Just inside the Dalmeny Gates, beach by Queensferry.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Stunning sunset view one midsummer's eve. The shore just east of South Queensferry is a superb vantage point to be able to take in the full splendour of one of Britain's greatest man-made creations. "The Forth Bridge ...It is big and it is clever" .....surely not often can one hear this antithesis of that well-known phrase. The mighty cantilever structure across the Forth Estuary was built in the late 19th Century. One of the great industrial wonders of the world, if not one of the seven. The bridge is currently undergoing some renovation work. It used to take a million men half an hour to paint it. Now I've heard there's just one man and he'll be there... well, have you heard the "contagious" joke? Bigger pic? http://www.mgkscot.com/pieman/pieman's_digital_pic_of_scotland/FrameSet.htm another bridges pic http://www.mgkscot.com/pieman/pieman's_digital_pic_of_scotland/pan/2005-08-18_105bridgemoda.jpg Historical collection of images of the Forth Bridge under construction: http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/photodb/page44.htm
©Simon Johnston
Dist:0.3km<br/>Potential candidates for hypothermia, with a May air temperature of about 5-6 deg., so I guess the water would be pretty cold.
©M J Richardson

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