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Storm Ingunn seems to be hitting Eshaness, just a bit.... (30+m cliffs)

https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/eshaness-lighthouse/

Why not pop to Mavis Grind for a bit of soggy fun ?

Ooh you are awful! But I like you.

Irony doesn't work.

But I've never seen anything like that on a webcam. Some of these waves are going clean over 100+ foot cliffs.

Nice day for a bit of sea kayaking maybe?

I've only just logged in so all I can see is darkness with the light scanning across. I assume there were waves breaking over the lighthouse cliffs. Nothing unusual. It was blowing a right old hooley in Lerwick at 8.00 this morning when I finally staggered back from our last Up-Helly Aa venue wearing my sequinned mini-skirt and blonde wig.

I remember visiting when I was up on a survey job - fresh scars of coffin sized blocks and the corresponding blocks lobbed hundreds of feet back, very cool to see.

Was there not a quote about the Oceanic (sister ship to the Titanic) when she went aground off Foula that she "Would be there for all time.." and the locals giving her one decent storm to be flattened, which is what happened.

neither of titanic's sisters went aground. one hit a mine and the other scrapped. interested to find out which ship that happened to though!

I think this is the shipwreck in question:

https://www.scottishshipwrecks.com/oceanic-2/

It wasn't a sister ship of the Titanic.

Oops, quite right, got my Olympic and Oceanic mixed up, sorry. It was the Oceanic that went down off Foula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Oceanic_(1899)) - a predecessor to the Olympic/Titanic class.

Can't remember who told me the story, may have been Andy Long (?), or one of the crew on the pelagic trawlers when discussing Shetland weather - it's mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the wreck though, so not just my memory playing up!