Sinclairs Bay is a bay on the eastern coast of

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, in the

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Geography

Starting in the north, at Noss Head, the bay is bounded by Freswick Bay, and overlooked by Skirza Head, the bay proper sweeps south in a long elliptical curve, before sweeping east to pass the remains Castle Sinclair and terminating at

Noss Head Lighthouse The Noss Head Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse near Wick in Caithness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is located at the end of Noss Head, a peninsula on the north-west coast of Caithness that overlooks Sinclairs Bay ...

. Sinclairs Bay has two primary geological features. Starting at the coastal village of

Keiss Keiss () is a fishing village at the northern end of Sinclair's Bay on the east coast of Caithness in Scotland's Highland Council area. Keiss castle Keiss Castle, which is now partially ruined, is located less than 1 mile north of the village ...

, running northeast, a stony beach and coastal

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s, become cliffs that are increasingly sheer the further north. South of Keiss, the cliffs even out in a large white sandy beach, called Keiss Beach, forming large

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of Reiss Beach further south. At

Ackergill Tower Ackergill Tower (or Ackergill Castle) is located on the coast of Sinclair's Bay, about north of Wick, Caithness, in northern Scotland. It was built in the early 16th century, and is a Category A listed building. The building is a five-storey o ...

, the beach again becomes stony and eventually forms into a series of cliffs and crags, further east.

References

{{reflist Caithness Bays of Highland (council area) Bays of Caithness