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U.S. Authorities Remove Tanker Captain from Scotland Amid Legal Dispute

Why did the U.S. take Captain Avtandil Kalandadze from Scotland? Learn how the U.S. Coast Guard moved the tanker captain despite a Scottish court order.

#marineratanker, #avtandilkalandadze, #morayfirth, #uscgcmunro, #scotlandlegalnews

https://newsletter.tf/why-us-took-tanker-captain-avtandil-kalandadze-from-scotland/

The U.S. Coast Guard moved Captain Avtandil Kalandadze onto a ship called the USCGC Munro. This happened even though a Scottish judge told him to stay in the UK.

#marineratanker, #avtandilkalandadze, #morayfirth, #uscgcmunro, #scotlandlegalnews

https://newsletter.tf/why-us-took-tanker-captain-avtandil-kalandadze-from-scotland/

Today, Burghead and Hopeman💙 #walking #coastalwalking #burghead #hopeman #morayfirth #moray

Four photo collage. A bright, cold, winters day. Grey/blue skies, some white cloud. Top left: ochre and green cliffs and headland,, grey, stormy seas, white waves. Top right: honey coloured harbour buildings, faded red boat, black and green lobster creels. Bottom right: green and ochre headland; blue/grey stormy seas: white waves crashing onto stony land. Bottom left: brown/beige coloured harbour walkway, looking over to honey coloured harbour buildings; grey water of the harbour on the right.

What is going on in the Moray Firth?
Lots of vessels all in a line! They're mostly off-shore supply vessels

#MorayFirth #Scotland

edit to add 2 pics. Seems they're taking shelter 😃

Marine Traffic screenshot showing several vessels, in a light blue dot, just off the coast between Nairn and Findhorn. A few more vessels, like MSC Dragon, are further out in the firth.

screenshot from windy.com showing large waves becoming smaller as they enter the Moray Firth between Nairn and Findhorn; going from a purpley-pink to a blue

marine traffic screenshot showing many ships taking shelter between Nairn and Forres as well as between Banff and Fraserburgh. THe Moray Firth is largely devoid of vessels in the wind farms.

The small cruise ship "Lord Of The Glens" coming through the Chanonry Narrows today heading back to the Caledonian Canal - I was hoping there might be a dolphin or two bowriding but nah... #cruise #Scotland #CruiseShip #MorayFirth

A small mainly black and white cruise ship at sea with land visible in the distance and a red navigation marker on the right. This cruise ship is called Lord of the Glens, based in the Caledonian Canal, Inverness, Highlands of Scotland

Today, Nairn East Beach💙 #walking #coastalwalking #nairn #nairneastbeach #morayfirth

Four photo collage: cold, bright, very windy, early winters day. Bright blue skies, some white cloud. Sand gusting in the wind. In all four photos, the sand seems almost pure white, both on the ground, and, as it blows towards the sea. Some green marram grass peeping through the sand. And, top right, a pale grey tree trunk blends into the white sand.

Today, Nairn💙 #walking #nairn #nairnharbour #fisherwife #morayfirth

Four photo collage: mild, early winters day, grey skies with large white/yellow clouds. Top left and bottom right: marram grass and beach sand leading to the grey sea, with white choppy waves. Top right: small boats lined up next to each other in the marina; mainly white with touches of dark blue, light lie and red. Harbour equipment and storage can just be seen in the background. Bottom left: grey statue of a fisherwife with herring in her hand and a fish basket on her back. Greek grass surrounds the statue. Beige marram grass in the background leading to the grey sea.

Just ethereal
Gorgeous sky over Scotland
Nature's gilded glow

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Autumn #Fall #Scotland #UK #Nairn #Farm #Farming #Nature #Ethereal #Sky #Cloud #MorayFirth #Photography

October 29, 2025

Color image of the sky over Nairn, Scotland, UK, off the Moray Firth in Nairn. Image shows the aftermath of a rain shower, cloud above underlit in orange and yellow by the afternoon sun, the ground wet, the fields green.

Getting eyeballed by Bottlenose dolphin 🐬 ID1239 "Ruby" today, surfing in the rough sea between Chanonry Point and Fort George. Inner Moray Firth, Scotland. #nature #dolphins #MorayFirth #Scotland

Photo shows the head of a Bottlenose dolphin breaking through the surf in a blue, rough sea. You can see the dolphins eye through the spray. Inner Moray Firth, Scotland

#Walking from the #DenofAfforsk to #MoreHead with great views down to #GamrieBay and the old fishing villages of #Gardenstown and #Crovie … 😀

https://themackwalks.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/233-den-of-afforsk-st-johns-kirk-more-head-circuit-aberdeenshire/

#Hiking #MohrHead #MorayFirth #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

New open access preprint (based on some old work 😑 ) looking at the "Stotfield Cherty Rock" (a Triassic silcrete/calcrete) which turns out to have been used in archaeological tool-making... It looks fabulous under 254nm UV light - so much going on in these rocks. 🤓 🤩 More here:

https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/9450/

#Geology #Archaeology #Lithics #Duricrust #Calcrete #Silcrete #Lossiemouth #MorayFirth #Sedimentary

The image is in two halves: on the left is a sawn slice of mottled pale brown rock, with many cavities, and a cm scale bar below. On the right, the same view, illuminated in ultra-violet light. Many areas of the rock show a banded cream and green luminescence.

The image is in two halves: on the left is a view of 7 pale brown rock fragments and a cm scale bar below. On the right, the same view, illuminated in ultra-violet light. The rock fragment show a bright green luminescence, with yellow and red in patches.

The image is in two halves: on the left is a sawn slice of mottled pale brown and black rock, with a cm scale bar below. On the right, the same view, illuminated in ultra-violet light. The black area is still black, but part of the pale brown area is showing bright pink colours, and a complex structure.

I'm very, very pleased to have taken this photo today, I haven't seen this young dolphin (ID#1332) up close for a while and was worried about his health. He has a deformation of the lower jaw and I wondered if he would thrive and hunt well for himself once he was weaned by his mum "Spirtle". I needn't have worried - he's a brilliant wee character, fit and full of fish. #dolphin #morayfirth #nature #wildlife