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North Berwick West Beach Photos

East Lothian, Scotland

Festive Rig

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As night fell on North Berwick we saw something unusual from the beach - over on the Fife side of the Firth of Forth a large oil rig was moored. A common site, you can often see some there near the shipyards around Burntisland, there for repair or to be dismantled. However this one stood out in the gathering gloom, brightly lit - a look through the zoom showed they had decorated it for Christmas!!

Apologies for the roughness of the shot, zoom after nightfall with no tripod.

Uploaded to Flickr by byronv2 on 21 December 2019

Creative Commons License Photo © byronv2, 21 December 2019. Licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons licence

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Location: North Berwick

Location type: Town

OS Grid: NT551854

Coordinates: 56°3'33"N 2°43'18"W

Mapcode: GBR 2V.Q6FF

What 3 Words: enveloped.congratulations.worker

Coordinates and location codes are for an approximate mid-point of the beach, and may not reflect the best access point or the most popular part of the beach.

Country: Scotland

Local Authority: East Lothian

Nearest postcode: EH39 4JJ

(for sat-nav purposes only, a beach does not have a postal address!)

'Festive Rig' - a photo of North Berwick West Beach

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