If you ask a Scottish person what time the sun goes down, they’ll say “Ach, not late, aroun’ aboot half-ten in the summer.” DON’T BELIEVE IT.
The sun never stops giving a wee bit of its glow to the summer night sky in Scotland. It sinks beneath the horizon in what is called “nautical twilight”, and never lets the sky get completely dark. Not that I’m complaining – it is beautiful.
I was reminded of the nautical twilight phenomenon during a brief stay in Aberdeen this week. Aberdeen is a coastal city perched on the east side of Scotland right on the North Sea. I had a room with a view and snapped these pics to capture that ever-changing but never-dark sky while enjoying the cool night air and familiar cries of the seagulls. (This lass grew up amid sand and seagulls in a wee coastal town in southeast Texas, albeit with warm nights and actual darkness after twilight.)
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