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Holy Island

  • Description

    Holy Island (Lindisfarne) Warning signs urge visitors walking to the island to keep to the marked path, check tide times and weather carefully, and to seek local advice if in doubt. For drivers, tide tables are prominently displayed at both ends of the causeway and where the Holy Island road leaves the A1 Great North Road at Beal. The causeway is generally open from about 3 hours after high tide until 2 hours before the next high tide, but the period of closure may be extended during stormy weather. Despite these warnings, about one vehicle each month is stranded on the causeway, requiring rescue by either Seahouses Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat or RAF helicopter. A sea rescue costs approximately £1,900, while an air rescue costs more than £4,000. Locals have opposed a causeway barrier primarily on convenience grounds.

  • Owner

    Walt Jabsco

  • Source

    Flickr (Flickr)

  • License

    What does this mean? Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License

  • Further information

    Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/23597967@N00/7166924871/
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Pat Thomson
    Last modified: 7 years, 3 months ago
    Viewed: 542 times
    Picture Taken: 2012-06-07T17:15:54

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