BartW
Well-Known Member
With all that thinking and planning about rebuilding Italian boats, I almost forgot about our very interesting dive holiday in Scotland last September.
Here is a brief overview with pics from this fantastic adventure
Ready for embarcation in Holland Ijmuiden for the ferry to Newcastle. One buddy with the campervan, one with the ML and a trailer for the dive stuff, and me and swmbo with our car and the boat.
From Newcastle still 350km drive till Oban.
Preparing the boat, the canopy, the dive compressor, the dive gear, …in Dunstaffnage marina.
And loading some spare stuff
The night before our departure
I finished the mounting of the front window wipers just in time,
But we were 4 day’s in Schotland before we could test these, (not even for spray)
just to indicate how lucky we were with the weather conditions.
Here we prepare for our first dive in Kerrera sound
not bad for a first day’s catch
Swmbo was very concentrated to locate the wreck on the side scan sonar
Between two dives no alcohol guy’s !
The lady was happy, being surrounded with 6 handsome guy’s all week,
here she is spoiling our vieuw over Oban.
This was the only floating mooring we could find in Oban center.
Actually my friend on that previous pic, is a offshore worker, assistant operator of a ROV. He was pleasantly surprised to see this on the main quai.
near the restaurant where we had lunch
At evening, Some prepare the fish, some do the passage planning for the next day,
And some others do the cooking
Our Karnic in our home berth for the week
2 day’s perfectly flat sea
The first of many castles
Due to the good weather we decided to do the longer trips first, to some exposed dive spots.
This was a lunch stop in Arinagour on the far distant island Coll
A Basking shark just near the boat.
Catch of another day
Much more slaughtering to do
Here is a brief overview with pics from this fantastic adventure
Ready for embarcation in Holland Ijmuiden for the ferry to Newcastle. One buddy with the campervan, one with the ML and a trailer for the dive stuff, and me and swmbo with our car and the boat.
From Newcastle still 350km drive till Oban.
Preparing the boat, the canopy, the dive compressor, the dive gear, …in Dunstaffnage marina.
And loading some spare stuff
The night before our departure
I finished the mounting of the front window wipers just in time,
But we were 4 day’s in Schotland before we could test these, (not even for spray)
just to indicate how lucky we were with the weather conditions.
Here we prepare for our first dive in Kerrera sound
not bad for a first day’s catch
Swmbo was very concentrated to locate the wreck on the side scan sonar
Between two dives no alcohol guy’s !
The lady was happy, being surrounded with 6 handsome guy’s all week,
here she is spoiling our vieuw over Oban.
This was the only floating mooring we could find in Oban center.
Actually my friend on that previous pic, is a offshore worker, assistant operator of a ROV. He was pleasantly surprised to see this on the main quai.
near the restaurant where we had lunch
At evening, Some prepare the fish, some do the passage planning for the next day,
And some others do the cooking
Our Karnic in our home berth for the week
2 day’s perfectly flat sea
The first of many castles
Due to the good weather we decided to do the longer trips first, to some exposed dive spots.
This was a lunch stop in Arinagour on the far distant island Coll
A Basking shark just near the boat.
Catch of another day
Much more slaughtering to do
