After Tobamory

[Quandary]

What happened to the bridge?

Its still there but a bit further away,we had to use it on the way back. You can walk from the farm across to the 'new' church at low tide without getting your feet wet.

 

[pmagowan]

Our July cruise last year, circumnavigation of Skye (and Mull).
Crinan to David Balfours bay for a walk on one of the UKs best beaches, round to the Bull Hole overnight.
Bull Hole out to Coll for a walk and dinner in the Coll Hotel, (awkward mooring there when it is windy, better to anchor?).
Coll to Canna, local rabbit casserole in the wee restaurant there, next day, walk across the isthmus to Sanday at low tide and up the hill to sit all day watching the young puffins practising flying by diving off the cliff edge and the added new excitement of being attacked by a pair of dive bombing bonxies on the headland (be sure to take a stick or brolly)
Next day round to Rum, ashore for a shower at the campsite, lunch with the locals in the community centre then a tour of the castle full of amazing artefacts including the worlds biggest working orchestrion playing Sousa marches, (missed the one sitting dinner in the Castle restaurant) .
Next day over to Scavaig for a fantastic walk around Loch Coruisk under the shadow of the Black Cuillin.
North to Loch Bay, Loch Dunvegan, spectacular scenery and great grub in the Stein Inn.
Round the top of Skye and up Gairloch to Flowerdale Pier, alongside berth with short walk to the Old Inn one way and the fantastic Gairloch Beach the other. Topped up with cheap diesel and spent another night there.
South to Portree, Rona is a nicer stop but we skipped it this time for a bit of shopping.
South to Kyle of Lochalsh, alongside berth inside pontoon.
Up early to sluice through Kyle Rhea on the tide, skipped Inverie to try the new pontoons in Mallaig (mistake?)
Mallaig over to Eigg but decide to go to Muck for a change.
Next day back to Tobermory for two nights then home to Crinan on the tide.
Not one stop we would have missed with great wee sails in between, it would take us at least five years to do one of those circumnavigations of the UK.

That is pretty much the perfect itinery. I would second both Scavaig and Canna. The restaurant there is excellent (but with odd opening hours so check online, the Oyster I think) and very friendly (gave us a bag of pin head oats for frying mackerel). Scavaig is stunning, we stayed there overnight a couple of times, swam in Coruisk and had a picknic overlooking our lonely boat in the inner pool. Lovely. Skye and environs is the bees proverbials.

 

[brianhumber]

Sounds like a nightmare trip. Of course your other 2 week cruises in the south have all had faultless weather?

The best chance of reasonable weather in Scotland is early season, but you can be unlucky, as you can anywhere.

Ha, now you ask last summer spent a week trying to get to Fecamp from Chichester. I'm not in the same league as a HL skipper.

Actually quite enjoyed the Scottish trip on reflection after getting back home.
Went ashore by dingy ( in the driving rain ) to a resturant called Puffer Ashore? if I remember correctly. Food was excellent but a bit of a shame we chose a peat bog to walk through from shore to get to the minor road to the resturant.

Rhum and Canna were great, spent several hours looking at Sea Eagles and Dolphins.

Other highlights were a local loony trying to fist the doctor in the surgery in Barra whilst g/f was nearly collasped on floor, he got carted away in cuffs to Inverness. The medical flight out of the beach was another tale, it was so foggy the normal flight was cancelled when the air ambulance turned up and appeared after landing out of the fog on the beach the other passengers tried to get on!! in front of g/fs stretcher and myself. Seem to remember the nurse said a few words in a lingo I did not understand and they all crept away into the fog with tails down.

Alls well thats ends well, the g/f recovered rapidly in Glascow, we returned to Oban by train to meet others and collect car, but its one of my sailing holidays I will never forget.
Life is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Brian

 

[awol]

FFS will you lot no toe the party line and stop putting out the tourist rubbish about quiet anchorages, pristine beaches, idyllic days under azure skies, etc. The correct response as you all know should be "there be dragons", "man eating midges", "unless you have the cajones (or brainpower) of an HL skipper you will never leave harbour", "wicker men treatment of incomers", "unmarked rocks abound", and the rest.

If you carry on there'll be marinas and vistors' moorings everywhere and diesel will be taxed!

 

[PabloPicasso]

Yes keep it all a secret. I promise not to tell anyone

 

[MM5AHO]

This guy must have been up Loch Sunnart...

 

[mick]

This guy must have been up Loch Sunnart...

This is Black Badger, well known thereabouts. A dismal sight.

 

[rib]

does tobermoray have its pet otter back yet,i heard the other one er well was not well after being fed

 

[awol]

Nope, not breathing for a couple of years hasn't led to a recovery. Why is it so difficult to spell Tobar Mhoire or even Tobermory?

 

[rib]

cause im an anus and we come in pairs