Tidewake Short summer nights, cold water and remote channels. The weather window is measured in hours, so the decision is made on the shore on the day.
Hazards Clapotis × 5Shipping × 5Weir / overfall × 2
Orkney and Caithness, Scotland Flood
The Pentland Firth is the channel between the Scottish mainland and Orkney, and it is the strongest tidal stream around the British Isles.
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Read the guide →Orkney, Scotland Flood
Scapa Flow is the largest sheltered harbour in the British Isles: 120 square miles of water enclosed by Orkney, with the best kayak camping in Scotland and a set of tidal channels between four islands that were joined by concrete barriers in the 1940s.
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Read the guide →Shetland, Scotland Ebb
Mousa is a small island off the east coast of Shetland with two claims to fame: a drystone broch that is the best preserved in Scotland and around 2,000 years old, and 6,000 pairs of storm petrels, the largest colony in Britain.
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Read the guide →Wester Ross, Scotland Flood
The Summer Isles are a scatter of about fifteen islands at the mouth of Loch Broom in Wester Ross, formed by the same drowned landscape as the rest of the Scottish west coast: a plateau that was cut by glaciers and then flooded by the sea, leaving steep-sided channels between low, green islands.
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Read the guide →Skye and Lochalsh, Scotland Slack
The Kyle of Lochalsh is the 500 m wide channel between the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Skye, and at its narrowest point, under the Skye Bridge, the whole tidal exchange of a large inland sea passes through a gap that is less than 300 m wide.
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