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Monday, January 11, 2010

Keeping an eye open for ferries at Gourock

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As we approached Gourock, we came to McInroy's Point , which is the terminus for the Western Ferries route to Hunter's Quay on the C...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Two iconic, but ultimately impotent, towers on the Clyde

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The overnight temperature had gone down to -17C and when I left home it was -10C. It was also snowing and a fresh fall of 4cm lay on top of ...
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Friday, January 08, 2010

Return to Dougarie

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It had started to snow with a northerly wind as we set off across the Kilbrannan Sound on our return to Arran. By the time we were halfway a...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Time to go in the Carradale Water

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We left the pines of Torrisdale Bay and paddled north, past a series of skerries, to enter Carradale Bay. At the west end of the bay we disc...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Torrisdale Bay in the Kilbrannan Sound.

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So sooner had we turned south from the rusting piles of Carradale than this amazing view opened up; right down the Kilbrannan Sound to Ailsa...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

"Bru'd in Carradale from girders"

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We paddled past Dougarie Point on Arran's west coast on towards the distant Kintyre peninsula. There is a raised beach round most of the...
Monday, January 04, 2010

An early morning wardrobe malfunction.

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Alan, Phil and I convened at the Ardrossan ferry terminal for the Arran ferry. We arrived just after 6am for the 7am ferry. We loaded 3 kaya...
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