Sea Arches (A Picture Thread)

Bring me yr pictures of yr favourite sea arches!!!

Inspired by my favourite sea arch that I discovered near Broadstairs.

I want to go to Durdle Door next! And then maybe the Orkneys! (sea arch heaven)

The arch at Kingsgate Bay:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3399/3431138897_56aa5f7209.jpg

Durdle Door awesomeness!

http://to55er.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/england_pictures_durdle.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durdle_Door

Stair Hole in LULworth

http://www.lulworthonline.co.uk/images/gallery/stair_hole/stairhole006.jpg

Just the name Lulworth makes me crack up every time.

I've done the walk over the hill from Lulworth to see Durdle Door, only to get there so see two noisy twats on jet skis just zooming in and out of it for the whole time we were there. So annoying.

bay of fundy, new brunswick
http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/images/pic_wonder_bay_fundy_lg.jpg

Are they allowed to jetsky through it? Isn't it protected?

x-post WOW THAT IS AN AWESOME ONE - looks like a Yes album cover. I love when they have trees and things on them.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/18/93/62/la-jolla-cove-at-san.jpg

Durdle Door, Lulworth, Chesil Bank and Portland Bill make that whole bit of Dorset completely brilliant.

Any good Arch needs a Stack too tho, right?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/17879791_757705cd7b.jpg?v=0

where is that?!

I just GISed it. Flickr account says France. Will check more later.

Wait! Lulworth appears to be near(ish) (at least on the other side of the penninsula from) Minehead. Do you think we can drive over while we are at ATP?

(or are distances in that part of the country further than they appear?)

(Etretat, Normandy)

This is Lord Ard arch in Victoria, Australia, before and after :-(((

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200906/r383855_1790523.jpg

xpost

's about 80 miles? Not awesome roads either, I bet.

YIKES!!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ would not want to be standing near!

This one is near Vancouver Island

http://www.celebratebig.com/pacific-northwest/vancouver-island-barkley-sound-deer-island-group-bamfield-tofino-kayaking/barkley-sound-vancouver-island-deer-group-rock-sea-arch.jpg

Do they have, erm, ROADS in Dorset? Is it really that uncivilised? I've never been further West than Exeter!

(OK, not counting family holidays in Cornwall as a kid, but that was a long long time ago, we didn't even have the M25 in London then)

I really loved doing O-level Geography. I might need to start a Roche Moutonee thread when I get home as a counterpoint.

xpost I'm not thinking of the quality of the surface but if you get a single lane twisty A road it can slow you right down and you have to factor that into estimates of how long it takes to get somewhere.

I have just been shouted at by some friends of mine I didn't know were from Dorset for implying that Dorset didn't have roads. IT'S YOUR FAULT.

Minehead to Lulworth would take about 90 mins or so, then you have to walk for 20-25 minutes to Durdle Door. Round trip would take 5 hours or something?

http://www.deuce4.net/web/totem1.jpg

^ this thing is the awesomest sea stack (the Totem Pole, Tasmania)

well, if it's stacks you're after:

Downpatrick Head, Mayo, Ireland:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/17/39/b1/downpatrick-head-march.jpg

Yup, stacks are certainly allowed on this thread! Especially awesome ones like that Tasmanian one!

Doesn't Iceland have some insane seastacks?

http://mi9.com/datawallpapers/data/22/3870/Sea_20Stacks_20at_20Sunrise/sea-stacks-at-sunrise_1680x1050.jpg

WOW. NOW THESE ARE SOME SEA ARCHES

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/267995328_3329f7c06e.jpg

Wow! A drowned world!

x-post holy what?

ICELAND.

It really is some next gen holy shit Lord Of The Wings type landscape happening out there.

Like a demon king emerging from the water

They're really kinda wonderful looking...

http://www.geo-reisecommunity.de/bild/regular/91615/Reynisdrangar-im-Sueden-Islands.jpg

Should have really gone to Iceland with my mate last month instead of Broadstairs, but didnt have the money.

http://www.retro.is/photos/Iceland_photos/02Reynisdrangar.jpg

And some amazing arches nearby...

http://www.digital-photo-web.com/image-files/vik-i-myrdal-photo-dyrholaey-440.jpg

also, BLACK SAND, holy shit...

http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~jenny/photos/2006/icelandn/sein/slides/black%20sand%20near%20Dyrholaey.JPG

http://www.stuartrichardson.com/dyrholaey-1.jpg

Iceland is actually SEA ARCH BONANZA

i thot it was cool that the durdle satellite image captures the arch- sorta

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/durdle.jpg

I didn't even think to look on the satellite images! wow.

(though I looked at the one for the Broadstairs arch, which was pretty cool.)

Mono Lake, California (interesting eco system too)

http://www.home-theater-design-concepts.com/imagesl/pan/MarcA/Mono-Lake.jpg

(I know - lakes aren't seas :-/ )

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/seastacks.jpg

sea stacks rule

That French one was Etretat. They went there on Coast.

http://www.kamaxx.com/jdlf/img/photos/2244_1-falaises-etretat.jpg

I am still fuming over Coast leaving our shores and going to France. I was willing to put up with their occasional Irish nonsense but France and Norway is just TOO. MUCH. They can have their own coastal programmes and stop stealing ours.

Just down the street from our home:

http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/3Dbayarea/images2/SantaCruz1.jpg

LOL I think that's a 3-D picture. Get yr special glasses on!

Yeah, I was gonna say - is that 3D or is it a really pink sunset?

Still, looks like a lovely place.

Normal image:
http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/8/6/6/highres_9446726.jpeg

Lake stack!

http://blog.mlive.com/news_impact/2009/04/large_pictured-rocks.jpg

http://www.rockclimbing.com/videos/Detailed/386.html

*barfs*

Sorry, arch, I guess. Lake arch #2:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/95/239786510_6bf47630b4.jpg

Lake arch #3!

http://www.n-sport.com/images/graphics/grandportalkayakercopy1.jpg

Arches, stacks, they're all good. :-)

I lived quite near Etretat for a bit and visited it quite a lot. That was a while ago and I daren't check to see if the arch is still standing - it seems to delicate to survive without my constantly checking up on it. I think there was other stuff to do there too, but to be honest every time I just went and looked at that arch.

Yeah the one I posted (twice) is in Natural Bridges State Beach, but in spite of the name there's only one intact bridge today. It used to be joined by a larger bridge to the main cliff (visible at the left of both pictures) but that went down in the 1989 earthquake.

http://instructor.ecoscenesonline.com/ArchRock.jpg

Anacapa island. Not much to look at, but you can see if from the coast on a clear day.

There are too many sea arches in Cornwall to even count.

The one at Nanjizal looks kinda... something that sort of rhymes with Nanjizal

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/148328593_875a40b196.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3594/3363913205_94103f2289.jpg

The Armed Knight. A+++ arch and also great name

http://www.broad-horizon-photos.co.uk/scenic_-_lands_end_peninsula/enys_dodnan_and_armed_knight_071005_03.jpg

http://www.gosouthwest.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/armoured_knight1.jpg

So it looks like I'm going to the Orkneys! Where are the best sea arches to be found?

http://cache.virtualtourist.com/10/5531489-sea_archers_Profile_Photo.jpg

tragically GIS doesn't turn up enough treasure for a proper parody thread

There was not a dedicated thread to be found for the Orkneys or I'd have asked there. I find it hard to believe I didn't start one in about 2004, but I got as far as a Faroe Isles thread and gave up, apparently.

you should see the Old Man of Hoy before it falls over

Ring of Brodgar, Skara Brae etc. are all on list.

the nanjizal one is magical

here's one justine and i saw on vacation last year: http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/248676_10150197382717050_7100698_n.jpg

here's another one from the same trip (the next day):

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/246758_10150197384127050_4124860_n.jpg

Are those Pacific Northwest sea arches? Something about the trees reminds me of Vancouver Island sort of area.

yep! oregon coast. the first one is around halfway between california and washington, and the second one is around 20mi north of the california border.

They do have some lovely sea arches up there! Those are gorgeous.

So, yeah, Orkney, magical land of sea arches, in fact they had these amazing double sea-arches called gloops or gloups that are caused by collapsed sea caves and they are the best thing ever! I visited all of these and climbed all over them:

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/22/56/225662_363ea258.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8287/7642314676_26e2acbc53_z.jpg

http://pics.orkneycommunities.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/26030.jpg

damn. That's awesome

here's a badass sea arch from northern california:
http://www.americansouthwest.net/california/photographs700/damnation-arch.jpg

I was just thinking about these the other day. I want to go see one.

Also, I'm kind of obsessed with this website and the 'watery wonders' section is pretty awesome.

That is an AMAZING sea arch, Brimstead! Reminds me a lot of the volcanic sea arches in Iceland.

emil.y I've got to check out that site some more when I've got a more stable internet connection, because "watery wonders" sounds right up my street.

OK so I do not even know if the Bullers of Buchan is a sea arch or a gloup (or indeed if the latter is an actual word in Scotland outside Orkney, as it's derivation is Norn not Gaelic) but wow, the Bullers of Buchan. What a rock!

http://www.visitscotland.com/cms-images/2x1/regions/aberdeen-shire/bullers-of-buchan

http://www.stthomasu.ca/~hunt/news/scotland/bullers/003.jpg

http://polskafirma.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bullers-of-Buchan-aberdeen-2.jpg

I *really* want to go here.

There are all these intensely local words for "holy shit, lookit that thing the sea has done to those rocks" and I have no idea how far phrases like "Geo" and "Gloop" go, or if it would incorrect to just apply non-local terms like "Zawn" or even "Vugga" to things that look like zawns but are in other countries?

Muckle Flugga has not a Vugga.

OK, I'm losing it and should really leave the house, hoolie or no.

http://www.livingwilderness.com/beach/point-arches-shishi.jpg

Arches with trees on looks really weird to me.

Guess I'm just used to sea arches in places Without Trees like Orkney* and West Penwith and the like.

*it's a lie there are No Trees in Orkney. There are totally trees. I've seen them.

Uh-oh, here's some more weird for you then!

http://www.mackinawinfo.com/storage/images/pictured_rocks_lovers_leap_2013_1660x1092.jpg

photo 1: Washington
photo 2: Michigan

Nah, weird is fine when it comes to sea arches. It's just a different look. I like trees, I like sea arches. I just never really picture them together.

Oh, Laurel posted my second one upthread, but from a different angle.

I don't have pictures turned on right now so I can't actually see what arches have been posted before!

Sea arch and stack destroyed by recent weather

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25639777

Oh god that's awful. But actually Cornish sea arches are created and destroyed at a phenomenally fast rate: was walking with a native around Porthtowan, pointing out where sea arches had been and were no more. Those waves are *enourmous* at the moment - seen a lot of pictures of waves the size of Pend Men Du basically washing over the tops of Cornish Villages. Pics of Sennen are just freaking scary. They're just going right over the top of harbour walls:

https://twitter.com/Ajax_Hake/status/420247901491953664/photo/1

This one's from Scilly. The thing in the distance, taller than the castle, that looks like a headland? That is a wave.

https://twitter.com/martinhesp/status/419795460644020224/photo/1

Portreath Harbour has been totally fucked:

https://twitter.com/ScottJames1979/status/419217601437655040/photo/1

I can't even tell you how many times I've stood on that bit that's just not there any more. Kinda scared to see what's left of Lamorna harbour, which had had a hole in it for a while. Scared it will be reduced to a pile of rock like St Agnes harbour if this winter goes on like this.

Ach, I heard about the sea arch destruction and meant to post it here, but totally forgot.

(Important contribution, I know.)

This is not even a sea arch, it is a forty foot wave that looks like a giant white horse leaping over a harbour wall:

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/white-horse-jumping-wall-Astonishing-picture/story-20410232-detail/story.html?000#ixzz2pjft9jqL

(I think this is an acceptable derail for a short time, though I will try to return to sea arches soon.)

a cob over the Cobb even

Haha! :D

A vaguely impossible looking FORMER sea arch sent to me by my Orkney Sea Arch Correspondent!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqM7TV3IMAARZHL.jpg

Three Arch Bay is just S of Laguna Beach. Annoyingly it's a private beach - all the time I lived there I got to see them only once.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/14302452.jpg

http://www.light-headed.com/asite/laguna/laguna_graphics/valencias.jpg

do those cliffs look like they have monsters in them or what? xp

There are definitely faces in those rocks!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8464/8100481729_12ac4e7d3c_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8464/8100481729_12ac4e7d3c_z.jpg

http://shaunacovington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/0409-Three-Arches-with-Beachgoers-Tom-Pulley-Postcard-Collection.jpg

Malta's famous Azure Window arch collapses into the sea.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2017/March/azure-window-AP121340746-large.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/malta/gozo/articles/maltas-famous-gozo-azure-window-arch-collapses-into-sea/