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I had another opportunity to visit one of my favourite locations here on the East Lothian coast and that is the small sandy beach at Seacliff. The beach is reached via a private road (there is a £3 charge to access the road)  and it leads down to the car park behind the cove.  As you look out in front Bass Rock is right in front, to the left is the Gegan and the tiny harbour and to the right is St Baldred's Cross, which is the outer marker for the Firth of Forth. Once you get onto the beach you can look across and see the ruins of Tantallon Castle on the cliff top. The reason for the visit was to allow a fellow photographer the opportunity test the X-T2 and XF100-400mm on his favourite genre - wildlife.  So we headed to the cliffs by the Gegan to take some shots of the Fulmars that are starting to set up home in the cliffs. All images shot on the Fujifilm X-Pro2 with a XF10-24mm f4 or Fujifilm X-T2 with a XF100-400mm f4.5/5.6 ...

At the western end of Seacliff Beach is an area known as The Gegan, a rocky outcrop with a tiny harbour, arguably the smallest in Scotland, that was carved out of the rock with the help of a steam engine at the end of the 19th Century by the then owner of Seacliff.  In the distance there is a fantastic view of the ruins of Tantallon Castle, the 14th Century stronghold of the Douglases (there will be more on Tantallon Castle in later blogs). CLICK HERE for more on The Gegan and Seacliff on the Undiscovered Scotland website All images taken on a Nikon D800 and a Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 AF-S or Nikon 50mm f1.4 AF-D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping -------------------...