sea stack
A nice sea-stack we could see from our
stopping place on the morning walk
(slightly bigger image, much bigger).

Monday, 6 May: walks wet and rewarding

I took so many pictures this day that I’ve split them up into two pages: this one takes us up to lunch, and the next one takes us from lunch to the formal dinner that we had at our hotel.

Little crofter structure
sheep folds, I think

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sea view I

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land view

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sea view II

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group of walkers

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After breakfast in the hotel, and before the walk proper, we drove to an interesting privately-maintained museum of crofter life. Loads of little houses with samples of the things of daily living, but un­for­tu­nate­ly, and most ill-advisedly in my opinion, we were asked not to pho­to­graph within the buildings. In the picture at the right (big image, small), that’s Stuart and Martha just leaving one of the structures. I hope they didn’t take any pictures.

The morning walk itself took us to the northernmost part of the island. Again very wet underfoot, and any drying of my boots that might have been accomplished overnight was completely negated, undone, and defeated. We walked up to a bluff overlooking the sea, and got terrific views.

Most of the pictures to the left are self-explanatory, but the top one seems to show sheep pens by a farmhouse, in the second one you can get a closeup of the ruined Castle Duntulm by passing your mouse arrow over the thumbnail, and the fifth is one of the many I took of fellow walkers this day: I think that’s Wendy at the left, then Harriet, Cari, and looking down, Jamen. Between the time I took the top picture there and the second one, I made the sequence of almost 150 snaps that make up the video below. Jerky, but maybe you’ll find it interesting.

270 degrees in 31 seconds

All the ten pictures below were taken when we had pretty much reached the destination for this walk: a high place with a small shed for whale- and dolphin-watchers. You can see Pol leaning against the structure in the second shot, and Laura sheltering in its lee to use her cell phone. She was the driver of the other van, and I unfortunately didn’t get to know her as well as some of the luckier members of our group did.

Linnea and Harriet

Linnea and Harriet
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Roger and others

Joe, Roger, Harriet
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Pol

Pol with harmonica
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Joe and others

Manda, Joe, Judyann
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MTK photographing

Framing
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Laura

Laura
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Martha

Martha frames too
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Stuart and Wendy

Stuart and Wendy
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Cari and Harriet

Cari and Harriet
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Judyann and Joe

Judyann and Joe
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Smiles all around:

Judyann, Joe, Jamen

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Judyann, Joe, Jamen

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bucolic scene I

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bucolic scene II

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Just a few more pictures before lunch: the four at right and left, and two movies, real ones now, that I guess I made from close to or at the top of our walk:

15-second clip
22-second clip

And then on to lunch.