Blue Seas, Blue Skies

Blue seas, a light easterly breeze, temperatures soaring to 25C in the early afternoon - the spell of perfect weather continues here. This is the West Country trading ketch Bessie Ellen in the Sound of Mull today. She's on her 'Small Isles St Kilda and Hebridean Adventure', based in Oban - more details about the ship here.

Against a perfect blue sky, our resident song thrush serenaded us from the power line above our heads, each phrase of his joyous and inventive song repeated at least twice.