Seacliff Harbour, North Berwick, Scotland, August 2020
Seacliff is the smallest harbour in the UK, measuring just 3 metres in width. It was cut out of the red sandstone in 1890, using a steam engine and compressed air.
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- Cee’s Photography
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- David M’s Photo Blog
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- Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery
- Irene at Heaven’s Sunshine
- Jackie at JunkBoat Travels
- Janet at This, That and the Other Thing
- Jesh Studio
- Ken at Pictures without Film
- Lady Sighs
- Le Drake Noir
- Lin’s Doodles
- Little Pieces of Me
- Lola Wi
- Maria at Kamerapromenader
- Marie at Hops Skips and Jumps
- Nicole at Une photo, un poèmePhilosophy via Photos
- Photo Robert’s Blog
- Purple Pumpernickel
- Sabine at Hinter den Tueren
- Salsa World Traveler
- Sandy at Out of My Write Mind
- Sue at Words Visual
- Woolly Muses
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 31 January 2021
Posted as part of One Word Sunday
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Travel with Intent 
Hi Debbie, your photos are so wonderful, they are full of geometry, geography and just plain fun.
Here is my entry, a little unusual for me.
https://ceenphotography.com/2021/02/01/one-word-sunday-challenge-small/
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Well, Sunday’s been and gone, but here’s mine, found in my archive: https://suejudd.com/2021/02/01/small-smaller-smallest/
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Great shot, Debbie. It couldn’t have been at all easy to build this tiny harbour. Here’s my entry: https://anotherday2paradise.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/one-word-sunday-small-smaller-smallest/
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Ah oui très étonnant. j’en ai vu des petits ports mais pas aussi réduits que celui-ci. J’adore cette photo
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Glad you like it, Arnaud. I’ve just been googling for the smallest in France and it came up with Port Racine. I’m not sure it really is the smallest but it has to be one of the most beautiful! Added to my list 🙂
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This is really an interesting little place. Must have been chilly as many of the jumpers are in wet suits?
Here is a bit of small from the woods.
https://littlepiecesofme1.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/ows-small/
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It’s always chilly in Scotland!
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wonderful pictures debbie, it’s really a small port, i think that’s great. here is my contribution for this week, https://wp.me/p2AvI7-3H7.
many greetings robert
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That is so cool, Debbie!
Here’s my take on “smallest”: https://outofmywritemind.com/2021/01/31/the-smallest-of-birds/
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They must really wanted a harbor, to cut it out of stone! Yet, I understand that the Scotts are really very emotionally determined people. Neat view though:) Thanks for braving your life to get some these views for us! Mine was barely seen with the eye. https://wp.me/p9EWyp-2F5
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That is a small one, Debbie. I’m going with something even smaller and also rather rare in Arizona.
https://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/smallest/
janet
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I have used it before but it fits so perfect: https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/small-smaller-smallest/
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I would have liked to see that harbour when I was in Berwick last year.
Here’s my entry
https://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/small-to-smallest/
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that is really small! here is mine: https://lolawi.blog/2021/01/31/small-to-smallest/
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That is very cool.
https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2021/01/small-smaller-smallest.html
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Very remarkable for a port … I’ve never seen one this small 🙂
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https://ladysighs.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/one-word-sunday-smaller/
I never quite pictured Scotland that way. Now it will be the only way I picture it. 😉 Hard to forget the red rock.
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https://wordpress.com/post/hopsskipsandjumps.com/18686
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This link doesn’t work.
Correct link: https://hopsskipsandjumps.com/2021/01/31/small-smaller-or-smallest/
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Thanks Debbie!
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There must have been a very good reason to go to so much trouble and effort to produce such a small harbour. Hee’s my choice….
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It is a private estate and it was built by the owner of the time.
I don’t know if he built it for personal use or to aid the local area.
The links you have given don’t work, but I’ve added one that does in the comment above.
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Thanks Debbie – you’ve enough to be doing without looking after technophobes!!!😅 😂
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Interesting approach to boarding!
And water it is: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/passing-it-forward/
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Yep, so would I, back in the day…..
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Aaaaaah!!
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😄😄😄
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What a fantastic little harbour! Now I have to search for an image for small
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I’m sure you’ll find us something, Sue
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Hmmm
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Gosh, that’s tiny! How come I’ve never been there? 🙂 🙂
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It’s a wonderful spot that I plan to return to. I only found it because I was trying to get views of Tantallon Castle which was closed due to lockdown. This harbour and beach have lovely views of both the castle and Bass Rock
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I must have missed it by a whisker! The day we went to Tantallon it was closed too! Long before Covid 😦
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You go juts past Tantallon (from North Berwick) then take an unsuspecting path on the left, and if in a car you have to pay to go down a long even more unsuspecting track. Eventually you emerge in a car park just above the beach. Do add it to your things-to-do-outside-EU list 🙂
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I have to wonder the reason for all the work to cut such a small harbour. I went off on a tangent as is often the case for me recently:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2021/01/31/smaller/
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It was built by the owner of the private estate (who died when the house burnt down some time after his hard work out here). I don’t know why built but it is a key spot close to the mouth of the Firth of Forth
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So it was a small, private harbour. That makes sense.
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Small indeed. How do you get up from the boat? Or from jumping down into the water?
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There are ladders up the sides. And it would be easier in a higher tide.
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Younger – yes I would have jumped. Now I’d really really have to think about jumping 😀
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I wouldn’t. Not then. Not now. I found it hard enough to get near the edge for photos!
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I would have held you by the belt as you peered over 😀
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My hero!
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😀 😀
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