Loch Bracadale On Visit To The West Coast Of Isle Of Skye Inner Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Loch Bracadale on visit to the West Coast of Isle of Skye. Inner Hebrides. The video includes Idrigill Point and the three sea stacks known as Macleod's Maidens. The distinctive stone stacks are said to have been named to commemorate the death of the wife and two daughters of a 14th Century MacLeod chief. The chief himself was mortally wounded in a clan battle on the Isle of Harris. His wife and daughters sadly drowned after a shipwreck at the Maidens, when returning to their ancestral home in Dunvegan. The largest stack is the Mother, who is said to be weaving and the two contrasting stacks are known as the daughters, one of which is said to be preparing the yarn for her mother. Loch Bracadale, Scottish Gaelic: Loch Bhràcadail, is a sea loch that separates the Minginish Peninsula in the south from the Duirinish Peninsula in the north. The Scottish coastline has a complex geology, and the sea has carved out softer rocks and lines of weakness to produce a spectacularly varied landscape. Scottish cliffs in clay and other soft deposits usually overlie bedrock. This protects them from much of the rapid erosion seen in true soft cliffs such as those of north Norfolk, England. Structural features of sea cliffs include: caves, overhangs, natural arches and bridges and flying buttresses. Since the word cliff has no agreed definition, estimates of the total length of Scotland’s cliffs vary, from 1,778km to 4,060km. This latter figure represents some 60% of Britain’s cliffs. Seabirds can find a nesting ledge on most types of rock. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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