awol
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Just in case boats are allowed and crews are allowed ashore - Western Isles' mild oceanic climate may help ticks thrive.
It has always been so. Must be another quiet non-news day at the BBC.Just in case boats are allowed and crews are allowed ashore - Western Isles' mild oceanic climate may help ticks thrive.
They sure are.Aren't these 'ticks' carriers of Lyme Disease?
Sadly the bothy is now closed. Many a evening spent there, even picked up a few ticks.We were ashore at Peanmeanach at the mouth of Loch Ailort last August wearing shorts, the tick bites all over my wifes legs did not clear up for months, by far the worst we have ever experienced, did not seem to be the big deer ticks though but every bit as mean. I would agree that the problem seems to be getting worse, possibly bcause West Coast winters are now so mild?
Sadly the bothy is now closed. Many a evening spent there, even picked up a few ticks.
Couple of years ago I seemed to have brought a tick back with me from sailing holiday in Greece. Found it on my person in the shower the first morning back. My doctor was happy to look at it (on my scrotum) but claimed she did not have one of those vet's devices. So I had to spend hours in A&E waiting for such a trivial treatment...There is much to be said for only landing where there are mettled roads and only going to the Pub. I got ticked walking over to the Hoos o'the Troosers a few years ago - they go for warm spots, in particular the underside of women's breasts is a common place to find them.
As a responsible skipper I consider it my duty to.......
It was in full use last summer by a couple of families of canoeists, they seemed to be in residence there rather than touring, kids in tents at the beach and adults in the bothy great place for mussels on the beach but walking out or in was through a bog with thigh deep mud. We anchored off the sandy beach which was pretty but quite a bit of rock and roll during the night as the tide turned, with hindsight we would have beenmore comfortable if we had moved close behind one the islands at the mouth of the loch overnight. Night before we were in the Borrodale Islands , night after Loch Moidart, we did not move far that trip but it was great to be out again.