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We left Oban harbour under cloudy, grey skies...
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...but no sooner had we entered the Firth of Lorn...
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...than a remarkable meteorological transformation took place...
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...and the clouds parted above us.
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We continued our voyage up the Firth of Lorn under welcome winter sunlight.