It includes a large tidal harbour at the mouth of the Eatonville Brook beside several dramatic sea stacks known as the " Three Sisters ".
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The " Siorrach ", meaning " foal ", is a sea stack which can be seen from the beach and is said to resemble a foal.
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She climbs the 200 ft Old Man of Stoer, a sea stack which can only be reached by swimming or a Tyrolean traverse across the sea.
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At the age of 77, in May 2000, he climbed the Scottish sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy becoming the oldest person to have done so.
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These features are known as sea stacks, and they appear standing out of the water or on the beach as though as sculptures placed decoratively along the shoreline.
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When melange is eroded by wave action, the softer part of the matrix is washed away, leaving the more resistant blocks exposed in the ocean as sea stacks.
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Cliffs, islands and sea stacks are a habitat for breeding sea birds such as guillemots, kittiwakes and razor bills, as well as rock doves which can live inland as well.
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The sea stacks along the coast at Goat Rock Beach consist of rocks from the Franciscan Complex, formed within an era of plate collision along the western coast of North America.
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There are also some volcanic sea stacks along the shoreline, vestiges of the harder rock formations surviving the erosion of surrounding softer rocks by millennia of wave action and salt spray.
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They teem with 128 species of marine birds and 30 of marine mammals; feature scenic sea stacks and 60-foot-tall, underwater kelp forests; and wash up against historic Indian carvings and ship graveyards.
