| Sinclair's Bay | |
| Pushpin Map: | Scotland Caithness |
| Location: | Caithness, Scotland |
| Rivers: | River of Wester |
| Oceans: | North Sea |
| Countries: | Scotland |
| Length: | 9.45km (05.87miles) |
| Width: | 3.51km (02.18miles) |
Sinclairs Bay is a large remote, breast shaped, or left leaf of a tear drop shaped, coastal embayment, on the east coast of Scotland, in east Caithness, in the district of the east Highlands.[1] Its coastline falls entirely within the Scottish council area of Highland.[2]
Starting in the north, at Ness 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[3] and terminating at Noss Head Lighthouse.[4]
Sinclairs Bay has two primary geological features. Starting at the coastal village of Keiss, running northeast, a stony beach and coastal crags, 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 Dunes of Reiss Beach further south. At Ackergill Tower, the beach again becomes stony and eventually forms into a series of cliffs and crags, further east.