Day 360: Buckhaven to Kinghorn – Coal, Wind, Flour & A Pictish Ship

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Fife, Scotland

Date of walk: 23/10/19

Sedco 714 retired drilling rig with Samsung’s prototype 7 megawatt wind turbine (the world’s largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine when it was built in 2013) at Fife Energy Park, Methil, Fife, Scotland.

Fife Energy Park, Methil, Fife, Scotland.

Wind turbine masts. Fife Energy Park, Methil, Fife, Scotland.

Wave Power, Fife Energy Park, Methil, Fife, Scotland.

Tidal Power, Fife Energy Park, Methil, Fife, Scotland.

Roundabout, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland.

Macduff’s Castle, built 14th-century, East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

Entrance to Jonathan’s Cave containing a large group of Pictish carvings, early Christian crosses and an early medieval boat carving, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

Interior of Jonathan’s Cave, Fife, Scotland.

Doo cave I, a medieval dovecot in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

Doo cave II, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

Doo cave III, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

Binbow, West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.

Headframe at the former Frances Colliery I, Dysart, Fife, Scotland. Sunk c.1850 & closed 1985. Frances worked undersea coals from its cliff-top location and was known locally as ‘The Dubbie’ because of wet underground conditions and employed 1,482 at its peak.

Headframe at the former Frances Colliery II, Dysart, Fife, Scotland.

Headframe at the former Frances Colliery III, Dysart, Fife, Scotland.

Sea Beams by Donald Urquhart. Each of the nine oak beams represent a colour of the sea in various states. Dysart Harbour, Fife, Scotland.

Dysart Harbour, that was, in part, carved from the coal that outcropped there, Fife, Scotland.

Hutchinsons Mill I, Carr’s Flour, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Hutchinsons Mill II, Carr’s Flour, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Kirkcaldy Sands towards the harbour, Fife, Scotland.

Remains of Seafield Colliary staithe, the mine was worked 1954-1988 and is now a housing estate, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

The coastal train at Kirkcaldy with the lights of Edinburgh across the Firth of Forth, Fife, Scotland.



The path ahead to Edinburgh.

Pictish horse or bull, Jonathan’s Cave, Fife, Scotland.

Pictish vertical fish with two cup marks, Jonathan’s Cave, Fife, Scotland

Pictish double disk and unidentified animal, Jonathan’s Cave, Fife, Scotland.

The somewhat indistinct but still remarkable Pictish carving of a 5-oared boat steered by a 6th figure seated in the stern in Jonathan’s Cave, Fife, Scotland.

Drawing of the Pictish carving of a ship in Jonathan’s Cave.

To customers & friends. W Stewart & Sons, scrap metal merchants.

Camp at dawn, Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland.

Wave, Tide and Wind Power in Scotland overlooking Fife Energy Park.
Hard to make out, but this is the Pictish carving of ship (viking longboat style) in Jonathan’s Cave, Fife, Scotland.
Entrance to Jonathan’s Cave.
The lights of Edinburgh come into view for the first time. An exciting moment!
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