Here today... Gone tomorrow!!!

Todays shot is a little bland you may think, but in documenting my journey, it would be remiss not to have captured this scene for the final time, the chimney of Inverkip Power Station for 40 years a landmark on the lower reaches of the Clyde and something I saw very very often from the water as a canoeist on this beautiful coast. Tomorrow it will be demolished, blown up and thus a peice of the riverscape I have know all my life will be gone.

Inverkip power station was an oil-fired power station built on the Clyde; construction began in 1970 for the then South of Scotland Electricity Board with generation ceasing in January 1988. SSEB was privatised as Scottish Power in 1991 which maintained Inverkip as mothballed strategic reserve until decommissioning in 2006 - the decision was taken to clear the site in 2010.

The chimney at Inverkip is the third tallest in the UK at 236m over 775ft in old money, and contains more than 1,400,000 bricks and 20,000 tonnes of concrete. If viewed in large you can see the way the demolition team have cut sections through the base to control the fall, and so at 11am tomorrow she will be gone.

As I walked the shore tonight my heart skipped a beat an Italian Spinone lumbered up the beach towards me, for a split second I expected to hear my friends voice as Flops was called to heal, sadly it wasn't Flops... I exchanged a few words with her owners and continued on, I think they were impressed I knew what a Spinone was... The only other soul I saw was an older woman watching Oyster Catchers through a pair of binoculars, the noise of my footfall must have disturbed her as she glowered at me with a face that would have turned milk sour.. I passed quietly by!

No lyrics, no words of wisdom today just the last chance of a memory. I hope you enjoy the shot