Saturday, August 8, 2009

Otters and porpoises - Kyle of Lochalsh

Quiet weather & smooth sea helped our fauna spotting team to excell.
We spotted 3 otters and many porpoises; also, razorbills with babies
and various seals, although the latter ones did not allow us to feed
them by hand like the Gairloch seal did.
My mom's time was up and we waved her bus out just now. The fauna
spotting team is loosing its most valued member! Another problem will
now be what to do if Julia is succesful at her mackerel fishing
efforts...
The crab Julia caught yesterday got seasick over night. We had to free
it. There is some slight hope that it will recover now that it is back
in clean cold water...
Kyle of Lochalsh has an excellent supermarket (we drove cart to the
boat) and the village is not unleasant. The hotels and restaurants are
'vergane glorie' though, so yesterday we had our slightly liberal
interpretation of 'high tea' in the cockpit - glorious.
Last night we were anchored at Eilan Donan Castle: looks better on the
photos, but nice quiet mooring and beautiful loch.

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