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24th Jun 2007
Holy Loch, United Kingdom - The calm Clyde
Going to have to be quick. We've met up again with Claus and Myraca from Holland (we met them first time in Whitby). We trundled down from Bowling this morning to Holy Lock to meet them. Had a walk from hell yesterday, the details of which will have to wait but it was all down to my bad navigation! Doh X
25th Jun 2007
Holy Loch, United Kingdom - Blow your heart out!
Forecast northerly 6 or 7, occasional 8. Thankfully we have all the surrounding mountains to shelter us now and only the odd squall to worry about - Horray....
After saying our goodbyes we left Bowling and made our way to Holy Lock as already mentioned. We were a little sad to leave Bowling. A great bunch of people and a lovely area. Special thanks must go to Alec the lock-keeper for recommending a walk up to the Humphrey lock. We set off on Saturday at around midday and a couple of hours later arrived at the top of the hill by the lock- beautiful.... Now I recalled that Alec had said to make our way round the lock and soon after we would get to a second lock from which we could return having made a circular route - great....
Conny asked if we should go round to the left of the lock where pine trees were growing and it looked really nice. But oh no! I could see a man walking his dog around the other, really bleak and barren, side of the lock and suggested that must be the way. Doh...
To cut a long, peat boggy, wet story short, we eventually reached another lock and were told by some fishermen that a main road was a 20 minute walk down a nearby track! Nearly an hour later we reached the road and then a pub, from which we ordered a taxi. It was now nearly 7pm and we'd been walking since midday! Anyway a 10 mile ride and we were back at Bowling Harbour.....
We never did set eyes on the man and his dog again!
28th Jun 2007
The Kyles of Bute, United Kingdom - Holy Loch to the Kyles Of Bute
Doh... no signal for 2 days soz to those that keep logging on and finding no updates but we just couldn't get online. Looks like this will become more common from now on as the mountains block our signal. Anyway, we're cruising around now so there's probably not going to be as much to talk about. We're in Tarbert now but more about that later.
Looking back..... we spent a couple of great nights in Holy Loch in the company of Klaas and Maryke. On the first night Conny cooked our favourite 'calorie bomb' meal for everyone, consisting of tortellini with a blue cheese and cream sauce (yum yum better loosen that belt off!).
The following day we took a bus ride out to Loch Eck (by eck) and took a walk down past the Botanical gardens and down the lock's edge. We returned at 6.30 to find we had missed our bus by a few minutes which meant a 2 hour wait for the next one. Conny suggested using the time to go on another walk. What a good idea I thought! Anyway, off we went on yet another walk through the 'tall tree walk'. Consisting of pine trees up to 140 years old, this turned out to be the highlight of the day. We returned at 8.45, by this time starving hungry, only to find Maryke had cooked for all of us.....fantastic!
Where did that big concrete thing come from ?
Tuesday we said our goodbyes and set off down the Firth of Clyde in convoy. We'd been underway for perhaps 45 minutes when, looking out of the back of Tiger, I noticed a concrete structure some way off. This puzzled me as I hadn't seen anything noted on the chart. Moments later and I realised it wasn't a concrete structure at all, it was a submarine! Tracking towards our starboard side at about 15 knots and with it's own pilot boat as a sentry, it looked quite ominous. In the event it passed us some way off but there could have only been 50 meters between it and Klass and Maryke's boat!
Having accused every marina, harbour and port we've visited of not listening to there vhf (marine radios) the truth finally dawned on me the other day.... in that we had a problem with out aerial....doh. So we dropped into Kip marina to buy a new one before continuing our trip up the western Kyle of Bute....beautiful or what!
Holy Loch, United Kingdom - The calm Clyde
Going to have to be quick. We've met up again with Claus and Myraca from Holland (we met them first time in Whitby). We trundled down from Bowling this morning to Holy Lock to meet them. Had a walk from hell yesterday, the details of which will have to wait but it was all down to my bad navigation! Doh X
25th Jun 2007
Holy Loch, United Kingdom - Blow your heart out!
Forecast northerly 6 or 7, occasional 8. Thankfully we have all the surrounding mountains to shelter us now and only the odd squall to worry about - Horray....
After saying our goodbyes we left Bowling and made our way to Holy Lock as already mentioned. We were a little sad to leave Bowling. A great bunch of people and a lovely area. Special thanks must go to Alec the lock-keeper for recommending a walk up to the Humphrey lock. We set off on Saturday at around midday and a couple of hours later arrived at the top of the hill by the lock- beautiful.... Now I recalled that Alec had said to make our way round the lock and soon after we would get to a second lock from which we could return having made a circular route - great....
Conny asked if we should go round to the left of the lock where pine trees were growing and it looked really nice. But oh no! I could see a man walking his dog around the other, really bleak and barren, side of the lock and suggested that must be the way. Doh...
To cut a long, peat boggy, wet story short, we eventually reached another lock and were told by some fishermen that a main road was a 20 minute walk down a nearby track! Nearly an hour later we reached the road and then a pub, from which we ordered a taxi. It was now nearly 7pm and we'd been walking since midday! Anyway a 10 mile ride and we were back at Bowling Harbour.....
We never did set eyes on the man and his dog again!
28th Jun 2007
The Kyles of Bute, United Kingdom - Holy Loch to the Kyles Of Bute
Doh... no signal for 2 days soz to those that keep logging on and finding no updates but we just couldn't get online. Looks like this will become more common from now on as the mountains block our signal. Anyway, we're cruising around now so there's probably not going to be as much to talk about. We're in Tarbert now but more about that later.
Looking back..... we spent a couple of great nights in Holy Loch in the company of Klaas and Maryke. On the first night Conny cooked our favourite 'calorie bomb' meal for everyone, consisting of tortellini with a blue cheese and cream sauce (yum yum better loosen that belt off!).
The following day we took a bus ride out to Loch Eck (by eck) and took a walk down past the Botanical gardens and down the lock's edge. We returned at 6.30 to find we had missed our bus by a few minutes which meant a 2 hour wait for the next one. Conny suggested using the time to go on another walk. What a good idea I thought! Anyway, off we went on yet another walk through the 'tall tree walk'. Consisting of pine trees up to 140 years old, this turned out to be the highlight of the day. We returned at 8.45, by this time starving hungry, only to find Maryke had cooked for all of us.....fantastic!
Where did that big concrete thing come from ?
Tuesday we said our goodbyes and set off down the Firth of Clyde in convoy. We'd been underway for perhaps 45 minutes when, looking out of the back of Tiger, I noticed a concrete structure some way off. This puzzled me as I hadn't seen anything noted on the chart. Moments later and I realised it wasn't a concrete structure at all, it was a submarine! Tracking towards our starboard side at about 15 knots and with it's own pilot boat as a sentry, it looked quite ominous. In the event it passed us some way off but there could have only been 50 meters between it and Klass and Maryke's boat!
Having accused every marina, harbour and port we've visited of not listening to there vhf (marine radios) the truth finally dawned on me the other day.... in that we had a problem with out aerial....doh. So we dropped into Kip marina to buy a new one before continuing our trip up the western Kyle of Bute....beautiful or what!
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