Sunday 8 February 2009

Icy Weather

Icy patch within the rocks.

Very cold and icy morning. It's not often that there's ice lying on the beach here but today a lot of the rock pools were frozen.

Frozen winter lochan Dumbarnie Links.
In the Dumbarnie Links Wildlife Reserve, hollows with short, rabbit-grazed turf and moss, become flooded in winter to form 'winter lochans' as the underground water-table rises. Today these were frozen.

Snow on the Lomond Hills, seen from the disused railway line in Lower Largo.
The Lomond hills look quite close in this picture but they are several miles inland to the North-West. The two hills East and West Lomond also look very close together but the ridge between the two is actually 4 miles in length. East Lomond at 434 metres (1471 feet) overlooks the village of Falkland at its foot. West Lomond is the highest point in Fife at 522 metres (1713 feet). It is the more exposed and looks to have more snow on it.

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