Where is it

Olivepage · Post by **Olivepage** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:11 am

A quick where is it for your amusement.

Not a spot I'd care to anchor!

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:59 am

Umm, Robin Hood's Bay?

aquaplane · Post by **aquaplane** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:49 am

Nay lad, Robin 'oods Bay is far more civilised, it's gor 'ouses an' ivrithin.

Olivepage · Post by **Olivepage** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:10 pm

Quite right.

This place is too far North to be civilised

Rowana · Post by **Rowana** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:51 pm

Olivepage wrote:Quite right.

This place is too far North to be civilised

Must be Geordieland then !

Seahouses?

Alcyone · Post by **Alcyone** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:16 am

That little rocky outcrop at the bottom looks Scottush to me.

Olivepage · Post by **Olivepage** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:13 am

A better guess than Seahouses.

Perhaps this may help:

Ocklepoint · Post by **Ocklepoint** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:46 am

Looks very like a slightly more prominent point than Ocklepoint, about six miles to the west of Ockle.

In an earlier life I was a "Keeper" of that horn and its associated "Egyptian Style"light,

Here a link to it

http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history ... urchan.htm

Olivepage · Post by **Olivepage** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:37 am

Your picture was taken on a much nicer day than mine.

The weather was awful, it was almost impossible to hold the camera steady in the wind, which I would guess as being F9, with heavy rain. We had to turn the car head to wind to avoid losing the doors when we opened them.

The pictures of the sea are a bit disappointing, it was much rougher than it appears in the photos. I'm glad we went by car and not boat.

Ocklepoint · Post by **Ocklepoint** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:00 pm

I spent the whole of last week in Ardnamurchan. I had a long list of exciting jobs to do around the place like painting the shed. All I managed in the week was to get the grass strimmed.

What a week. Truly dreadful, the bonnet got blasted off the chimney one night.

Our place looks north over Eigg and up to Skye. Very little shipping around through the week and not one yot. I did see one of the norwegian fish farm support vessels come eastwards up the coast, about half a mile offshore, if that. Usually their course takes them round the point, north of the Fascadale buoy and then into Mallaig.

Did you see the long tow the day you were at the light house ? I think it went past on the Wednesday. One tug and then on a very, very long tow a big barge with what looked to be a lot of construction plant on it. I first saw it passing Fascadale and then in the afternoon passing Kilchoan. I was wondering how you would get such a long tow round a sharp corner, shorten the tow or go out and take a very wide arc?

Ocklepoint · Post by **Ocklepoint** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:29 pm

I spent the whole of last week in Ardnamurchan. I had a long list of exciting jobs to do around the place like painting the shed. All I managed in the week was to get the grass strimmed.

What a week. Truly dreadful, the bonnet got blasted off the chimney one night.

Our place looks north over Eigg and up to Skye. Very little shipping around through the week and not one yot. I did see one of the norwegian fish farm support vessels come eastwards up the coast, about half a mile offshore, if that. Usually their course takes them round the point, north of the Fascadale buoy and then into Mallaig.

Did you see the long tow the day you were at the light house ? I think it went past on the Wednesday. One tug and then on a very, very long tow a big barge with what looked to be a lot of construction plant on it. I first saw it passing Fascadale and then in the afternoon passing Kilchoan. I was wondering how you would get such a long tow round a sharp corner, shorten the tow or go out and take a very wide arc?

Rowana · Post by **Rowana** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:13 pm

Talking of lighthouses, I used to live next to this one when I was a wee laddie -

http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/todhead.htm

Went to school with the keepers kids, and when it was foggy, we used to paddle in the cooling water for the engines.

Happy days !

Olivepage · Post by **Olivepage** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:15 pm

We went up to Invermorriston last Wednesday. Went to Skye on Thursday, Beauly on Friday, Ardnamurchan Sat and home on Sunday.

I suppose there were a few minutes when it stopped raining, but not many.

We usually have a few days in West Scotland at this time of year, wedding anniversary, and this was the worst weather we've seen.

This was a "stream" near Portree:

Paddling was definitely out.