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Showing posts with label Garvellachs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garvellachs. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Gentle undulations on an otherwise empty sea.

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 In the middle of the Firth of Lorn the wind had dropped to nothing as we paddled east towards Seil. Away to the south lay...  ...the ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

The sainted rocks were as slippery as an eel.

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It was a big spring tide and as it was now low water on Eileach an Naoimh (Isle of the Saints) our heavily laden boats were left high and...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Possibly the base for a standing cross.

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We made our way down from the summit ridge of Eileach an Naoimh to the site of what is reputed to be the site of  the grave of Eithne w...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The summit ridge of Eileach an Naoimh.

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 The rough stone platform where we had stopped for lunch on Eileach an Naoimh was...  ...encrusted by beautiful alpine plants and lich...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

A harp and beehives on the Isle of the Saints.

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We now slipped through the narrow channel between the SW end of Garbh Eileach and A' Chuli leaving the wild NW coast of the Garvellac...
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Monday, January 20, 2014

The smell of the sea hung in the air of Garbh Eileach.

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We paddled across the channel which separates Dun Chonnuill  from Garbh Eilleach which is the biggest and roughest of the Garvellachs gro...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Crossing to the Garvellachs, the Isles of the Sea.

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A big spring tide was ebbing down the Firth of Lorn. Soon we were making good speed at 9-10km/hr towards our halfway point the lonely rock...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

From the Slate Islands to the Isles of the Sea.

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It was midsummer several years ago, when Jennifer, Phil and I met below the whitewashed cottages that fringe at the little harbour at Ell...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Darkness stole across the Isles of the Sea.

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The entrance of the Cuan Sound can be a bit bouncy as the flood tide jets out into the Firth of Lorn... ... but it soon flattened off as p...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Garvellachs from Seil

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A 32km day trip round the Garvellach islands from Ellenabeich on Seil. August 2010. the NW coast of Eileach na Naoimh. Tidal streams from In...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

An encounter with Loti on an uneasy sea.

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Long after we had left Belnahua we were still being carried north at 9-11km/hr on an uneasy sea. Wind against tide here can be an interestin...