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    Arrow North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    Explored here with Wurzel and ZombieSazza weather was quite murky but still a good day out. Built in WW2 to protect the naval anchorage in the Cromarty Firth . It is situated on top of the cliffs and is very similar to the South Sutor Coast Battery which was built in WW1 but revamped for WW2. A minefield ran between them as this was a ideal place for enemy submarines to do some serious damage. Norwegian Personnel operated and trained here and it was armed with two 6" gun emplacements There is two searchlight emplacements at the bottom of cliff but I woosed out ha ha ( don't really do heights as the picture of me in people shots shows ) . Site has several buildings still in good condition and a lot of the original camo paint can still be seen along with some steel shutters.
    Anyway here is the pics

    Looking across to South Sutor Fort - One of the searchlight emplacements the ones at this Fort look the same



    Pretty sure they didn't have these to contend with



    Looking to the engine house





    They fairly stripped the vents off and chucked them here



    Some nice brickwork ( does anyone know of any history about the bricks were they local made at sites or brought in or even built on site)



    Various Buildings that I am unsure of





    Back of the furthest North Emplacement





    Front View



    See the Camo paint



    The Observation Post





    Dinner anyone is it a rabbit is it a bird - dunno but I bet it tastes like chicken



    Another building several layers high looks like it has collapsed a level as the very bottom floor had rangefinder points



    A underground Store







    The gun mount



    Under the more Southern Emplacment







    Going up





    A great place to visit well worth the trip
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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    Searchlight positions







    This was inside one of the buildings along side one of the gun pits so Elvis obviously lives


    a good day was had but didnt feel up to chasing the boars at the other side
    Last edited by wurzel; 19-02-2010 at 10:48 PM. Reason: add photo
    Move along now,Nothing too see here.

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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    When we went to the other side, we took a decoy (Bryag) and that did the trick.

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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    Don't think I can run that fast but with those boars chasing me you never know
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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    Nice one, good to see someone else is daft enough to go down to the CASLs

    I really like North Sutor, good to see more pics from here
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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    that's well nice

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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    Yeah well we found the easy way when we came back up the way but going down was a challenge,i still have the scars to prove it
    Move along now,Nothing too see here.

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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    He -finally- posts about this place. :P

    Nugget missed the search light emplacements at the bottom because he didn't want to climb down with Wurzel and myself. We got torn to shreds (Thanks Wurzel, I had an art nude shoot the next day :P ) but it was worth it for the view, annoyingly we found a path for the way back up.....

    (This was also the first time I'd ever used my Fuji DSLR so the white balance is a little.. Off..)





    Really want to go across the bridge but I think it's out...



    Nice place for a romantic meal underground?


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    Default Re: North Sutor Coast Battery - Feb 10 - Report

    urrrgh bad joke time lol
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