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Gallery 2009

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7th February: Clackmannan Bridge
Opened in November 2008, takes pressure off the original 1930s bridge and relieves traffic in Kincardine. 
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig09
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16th February: Nazaret, Lanzarote
Typical village in the central area of the Canary Island with its whitewashed villas. Panobubble.
Sutton Flowform 16 and Rig09
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17th Febru'y: Castillo de Guanapay
Built on the lip of an extinct volcano, 452m, looking down on the ancient Lanzarote capital of Teguise.
Sutton Flowform 16 and Rig09
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18th February: Vineyard, Lanzarote
Each vine planted in a depression with a stone windbreak to protect the grapes from the heat and wind. Pano Sutton Flowform 16 and Rig09
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19th Febru'y: Salt Pans, Lanzarote
Salt is recovered from the sea in artificial ponds at Janubio, in the south west of the island.
Sutton Flowform 16 and Rig09
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21st February: Teguise, Lanzarote
In the town center an unusual view of  San Miguel Plaza, from above the church of Guadalupe.
Sutton Flowform 16 and Rig09
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20th April: Berck sur Mer Kite Festival 2009
Views of the beach and the town (click to see!) and a chance to meet up with old and new friends. 
Later in the day we went inland and visited the Abbey of Valloires.
Peter Bults' Maxi Dopero and Rig10 (19mm) then  Fled and Rig09.
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29th April: Blackness Castle.
Not the best light (or wind) but a time-limit for the World-Wide KAP Weekend meant shoot whatever! 
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig09
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13th July: Abhainnsuidhe Castle.
Grand and spectacular, and yet completely incongruous in the rugged rural island of Harris. 
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig09
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15th July: Scalpay Bridge.
Opened in 1997, an ambitious project to stop the decline in the island of Scalpay by linking with larger Harris 
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig09
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15th July: Bunabhainneadar Whaling Station.
Not much remains of this early 20C attempt to bring industry & employment to Harris. 
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig09
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17th July: MacGillivray Center, at Northton, South Harris, is a contemporary interpretive center celebrating naturalist William Mac- Gillivray. R8 Delta Cruiser & Rig09
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21st July: Calanais, Lewis 
 
The stone circle dates from 2900 - 2500 BC, located on the west coast of this Hebridean island. Bubble.
Dopero 100 and Rig10 (19mm)
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21st July: Dun Carloway Broch,
 
on the west coast of Lewis, with walls rising to 9m. Build around 1C BC, and occupied until 1300 AD.
R8 Delta Cruiser
& Rig10
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22nd July: 
Bunabhainneadar Tennis Court, North Harris, the most remote in the UK. We managed 45minutes before the heavens opened!.
Dopero 100 and Rig10 (19mm)
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24th July: Rodel Church, Harris 
 
Build by the MacLeods around 1500 the present structure is mostly from 1784. In the care of HistoricScotland
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig09Bubble
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24th July: Northton, Harris, Outer Hebrides 
 
A brackish burn just north of Northton on South Harris  has sculpted tiny islands in the peaty soil. Sometimes KAP lends itself to the unusual and the little details that are all around us.
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig09

9th November: Cairnpapple 
 
An old haunt revisited on a windless anywhere else day to KAP with Peter Bults visiting from The Nederlands.
R8 Delta Cruiser and Rig10  

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