The RAF visited us again on Friday, with two Tornados coming over low and a third 'plane, possibly a Typhoon, passing across the Sound of Mull. We've yet to have a good view of the new Eurofighter.
While there are yachts passing in the Sound - this one is pictured off Bloody Bay - it seems to us that there are fewer than in previous years. Many of them motor past. We understand this when, as happened yesterday evening, there isn't a breath of wind, but many motor even in a peasant breeze. Either they can't be bothered with the tacking that's almost always needed because the Sound forms a dog-leg, or they're just in a hurry to round Ardnamurchan Point.
When we set out in the kayaks yesterday the tide was low. This often leaves a sea urchin or two stranded on weed above the waterline. This is
Echinus esculentus, the Common Urchin.
This picture, taken by Julie Allcock from Pier Road, shows some of the blue sky we've enjoyed this week. The view is of Kilchoan Bay, with silage bales in one of the Ardnamurchan Estate fields and, in the distance on the right, the hill called
Maol Buidhe.
The RAF visited us again on Friday, with two Tornados coming over low and a third 'plane, possibly a Typhoon, passing across the Sound of Mull. We've yet to have a good view of the new Eurofighter.
While there are yachts passing in the Sound - this one is pictured off Bloody Bay - it seems to us that there are fewer than in previous years. Many of them motor past. We understand this when, as happened yesterday evening, there isn't a breath of wind, but many motor even in a peasant breeze. Either they can't be bothered with the tacking that's almost always needed because the Sound forms a dog-leg, or they're just in a hurry to round Ardnamurchan Point.
When we set out in the kayaks yesterday the tide was low. This often leaves a sea urchin or two stranded on weed above the waterline. This is Echinus esculentus, the Common Urchin.
This picture, taken by Julie Allcock from Pier Road, shows some of the blue sky we've enjoyed this week. The view is of Kilchoan Bay, with silage bales in one of the Ardnamurchan Estate fields and, in the distance on the right, the hill called Maol Buidhe.
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