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Badger at Speed
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Cruise ship entering the Tay at dawn. The Tay has been a frequent host to these vessels over the past few years.
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Mares Tails
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Weather front crossing the Tay
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Sky darkening as a squall blows across the Tay driven by a North East wind.
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Apollo Hawk anchored off Broughty Ferry - Feb 6th 2006
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Apollo Hawk
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Sunset 18th August from Broughty Ferry.
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Proving that swans too can be healthy eaters. 4 swans at Broughty Ferry gobbling down silkweed - a change from their usual diet of buns and poor folks kneecaps.
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The Larick Beacon at Tayport is a classic design of “Pile Lighthouse” also seen on the Atlantic coast of America. The barracks that Stephenson built for the workers on the Bell Rock lighthouse was a very similar design, minus the light. Seen from Badger on a passenger trip.
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Supertanker “Fucsia” passes the Larick Beacon at Tayport with Badger keeping station.
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A very high spring tide at Broughty Harbour
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Low tide - River Tay at David Anderson’s Marine boatyard
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Broughty Castle from the Pilot Pier with some rare lying snow on the wooden pier
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Badger passing the cable laying ship “Discovery” after leaving Victoria Dock, Dundee for the start of her new 2005 season
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The River Tay near Perth. Badger and David Winch (the rower) wait while a coaster passes them in the deep water channel en route to Perth.
David (who had just had a heart bypass operation ! ) rowed from Perth to Dundee to raise funds for the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat.
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One of the many Tay dolphins seen from Badger during the summer of 2004.
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Link to page on Dolphins in the River Tay
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Badger showing her true colours at the Tay Railway Bridge
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MVS Tay gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of H. M. Revenue and Customs, The Port of Dundee (Forth Ports) The D. C. Thomson Charitable Trust, The Bell's Nautical Trust, Mrs. M. Robertson-Black, The Tay Charitable Trust, The St. Katherine's Fund, The Robertson Trust, The Alexander Moncur Trust, Historic Scotland, The Mathew Trust, Mr. Clive McKeag
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