Qualla: South Stack https://qualla.com/south-stack en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: South Stack https://qualla.com/south-stack South Stack: Introduction https://qualla.com/south-stack/ Four hundred stone steps cut into the cliff face. Then a footbridge. Then the lighthouse. To reach South Stack you descend, which feels wrong for a tower built to be seen from miles out at sea, but the geometry of this corner of Holy Island makes it work: the cliffs of Holyhead Mountain rise 120 metres straight out of the Irish Sea, and the lighthouse sits on a small flat-topped sea stack that broke away from them long ago. From above you look down on the white tower and its keeper's cottages laid out neatly on green grass against blue water. From below, looking up, you see one of the largest seabird colonies in Wales, layered across the cliff in vertical bands like cake.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/south-stack-wp/gckx-south-stack-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full South Stack: Lit in the Year of Madeira https://qualla.com/south-stack/ Trinity House completed South Stack Lighthouse in 1809. The lamp tower is 28 metres tall and the whole complex covers seven acres. For its first nineteen years the only way to cross from the mainland to the stack was in a wicker basket suspended from a hemp cable - the keepers an...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/south-stack-wp/gckx-south-stack-the-cliff-that-screams.mp3 0:06 4 full South Stack: Roxy Music and the Tidal Future https://qualla.com/south-stack/ In August 1975, the photographer Graham Hughes climbed down to a slope directly below the footbridge with the model Jerry Hall and shot the cover of Roxy Music's Siren album. Hall, glistening with paint to look like a stranded mermaid, lay on the rocks while the lighthouse stood ...

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