GLENMORE BAY TO RUM
This and the next two blogs provide an update
covering the past several days. Our
overnight anchorage on 3 June at Glenmore Bay, on the south shore of the
Ardnamurchan peninsular, was as quiet as you always hope such spots will be:
not a breath stirred the water all night.
Consequently on 4th the skipper, who had promised the crew cups of tea
at 0700 for an 0800 departure, was guilty of ‘slack hammock’. Nevertheless, we slipped our buoy before the
allotted hour, with the fairer sex crew still in their bunks. But the smell of bacon butties soon all on
deck enjoying the gentle SE conditions.
Fair the
weather may have been, but warm it was not.
The mate resorted to putting the tea cosy on top of her woolly hat:
Ardnamurchan
Point light soon came, and all three crew verified that it was indeed the said
light:
The skipper
marked the moment by breaking out into a verse of ‘My father was the keeper of
the Ardnamuchan light….’
The S3
enabled us to thread our way past Muck, Eigg and the east coast of Mull with
the minimum of effort, but the sun that the forecast had promised a couple of
days ago never made an appearance. In
fact it remained seriously cold. Mind you, the temperature did not stop what
appeared to be a giant crocodile from following us:
Apart from
this beast, en route to Rum we spotted porpoises, seals, great black backed
gulls, guillemots, razorbills, dolphins, manx shearwaters, gannets and arctic
terns. Marvellous. These attractions so entertained us that the
30m passage seemed to be over in a flash; by lunchtime we were in our Loch
Scresort anchorage on the east side of Rum:
A forage
ashore was amusing. We enjoyed: tea at
the local village hall;
a baronial pile, with even more turrets than
Tim can lay claim to;
A Japanese
bridge that brought out the Mate’s modelling talents;
And also those
two other crew’s passion – they really are going to have to go!
Back on
board, the skipper proudly did a spag bol - and complained that nobody bother
to take a phot of him performing such a miracle. But here he is serving it up!
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