Inside Small Cave at Clashach Cove

This gives a different impression of the small cave at Clashach Cove. We are standing just outside the cave, looking through it. This gives a spectacular feeling of looking through a portal to another world as we can see no features on the other side of the hole – just white light. This hole has been carved by the constant ebb and flow of the sea. On the ground of the cave we can just see smooth, rounded, pebbles that have been discarded at a previous high tide. This cave is part of the footwall of the normal cataclasite fault at Clashach Cove and consists of pale yellow, buff, non calcareous medium grained New Red Sandstone of the Permian period. They were once sand dunes and are analogous to an offshore setting in the North Sea. Photographed on a beach walk from Hopeman to Lossiemouth, Moray, Grampian, Scotland