Cove Panorama

Walking the Coast between Cove and Rua Reidh Lighthouse




A magnificent stretch of Coastline!


Cove

Rua Reidh Lighthouse Sea Stacks Burn Cove Loch Ewe Rocky Coastline Memorial Firemore Beach Coastal Defences at Cove Loch an Eun Loch an Draing Melvaig Transmitter Mast Loch Sguod An Cuaidh 296m Cnoc a Ghaorr 266m Loch a Chaol-thuil Loch Airigh an Eilein Midtown

Rua Reidh Lighthouse

Sea Stacks

The Burn plunges over cliffs down to the sea

Looking back to the start of the walk

Loch Ewe

The Rocky Coastline

Shipwreck Memorial

The lovely beach at Firemore

Coastal Defences at the entrance to Loch Ewe
The road up to the Rua Reidh Lighthouse from Melvaig is quite spectacular!
Rua Reidh


Sea Stacks
A short distance from the lighthouse one comes to these huge cliffs and Sea Stacks.


The Burn from Loch nan Eun plunges over the cliffs here into the sea.
Burn


Cove
Looking back to the start of the walk from Cove, you can see the old wartime gun emplacements on the top of the hill.


Looking across Loch Ewe
 Loch Ewe


An Teallach
A snow covered An Teallach


Rocky Coastline
 Rocky Coastline


View North
The view North


This is the site of a wartime shipwreck, A memorial Plaque tells the story of the USS William H. Welch
 Shipwreck Memorial


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All pictures © Ian Van Hinsbergh Last Update 11th June 2005