Firth of lorne
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VIC 32 and Duke of Normandy with steam up at Crinan. An absolutely glorious sight and sound, bringing back fond memories of Para Handy and the Clyde puffers.
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This is the view southwest to the Gulf of Corryvreckan, with the island of Jura on the left and Scarba on the right. The Gulf is where you’ll find the infamous whirpool.
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With Jura on the left (where George Orwell wrote 1984) and Scarba on the left, this is where you’ll find the famous whirlpool of Coryvreckan, second only to the Maelstrom in its power. Fortunately, this photo was taken at slack water with a pleasant summer breeze. At other states of the tide this area runs like a river, and when there’s an opposing wind the standing waves are a sight to behold (though not to be caught in!). When there’s a westerly gale and a flooding tide the sound can be heard miles away.
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WAVERLEY is the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world. This photo was taken near Easdale as the Waverley made her way around the Firth of Lorne on a day trip from Oban.
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This is VIC32 steaming up the Sound of Luing, just about to pass Fladda. / The Garvellachs are in the background. VIC 32 is the last sea-going coal-fired steam ‘Clyde Puffer’. /
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This is VIC32 steaming up the Sound of Luing, just about to pass Fladda lighthouse. Mull and the Garvellachs are in the distance. VIC 32 is the last sea-going coal-fired steam ‘Clyde Puffer’. /
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This is VIC32 steaming north towards Easdale. VIC 32 is the last sea-going coal-fired steam ‘Clyde Puffer’. /
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Lismore Lighthouse Where the Sound of Mull meets the Firth of Lorn, at the southern tip of the island of Lismore, stands this lighthouse, built in 1833 by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist famous for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lighthouse beacon has a range of 19 miles and is easily seen from Oban about 6 miles distant. The lighthouse was automated in 1965. Date: 19th August 2008 Click here to see Southerness Square-Shaped Scottish lighthouse
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The shipping forecast had it spot on – “Malin/Hebrides, South Westerly Severe Gale force 9 increasing Storm force 10, occasionally Violent Storm force 11”. / A good day to leave the boat in the marina and go exploring by land! Easdale is a particularly exposed piece of coast on the west of Scotland, where the sea has an uninterrupted run from Nova Scotia. To give you an idea of scale, the rocks in the foreground are a metre in diameter, they aren’t pebbles. Coincidentally, this ‘beach’ is where my wife and I had our first open water scuba dives .. fortunately the sea was a little calmer then!
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This was taken shortly after a very deep depression battered us with gales and storms for a few days. The seas were still high, but the sky was starting to clear. The view is from Easdale, south and west to (from the left) Lunga, Eilean Dubh Mor and the Garvellachs. The Garvellachs, or ‘Isles of the Sea’ have a fascinating history, and are one of the earliest outposts of Christianity in Scotland, reputedly containing the grave of Eithne, the mother of St Columba.
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Watching the sea pile in to Easdale’s normally sheltered harbour reminded me of the song oft sung by the Vital Spark’s crew: Oh! The Crinan Canal for me, / I don’t like the wild raging sea, / It would be too terrific to cross the Pacific, / Or sail to Japan or Fiji. / A life on the Spanish Main, / I think it would drive me insane, / The big foaming breakers would give me the shakers, / The Crinan Canal for me. For the curious, the harbour entrance is between the rocks in the foreground, and the little rock right of centre .. not the rocks with the breaking wave!
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Lismore Lighthouse, on Eilean Musdile in the Firth of Lorne at the entrance to Loch Linnhe. Taken from the Isle of Mull ferry, the MV Isle of Mull.
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Looking across the Firth of Lorn to the island of Mull from the island of Kerrera, off the west coast of Scotland on a moody day.
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On the Lorn coast of the island of Kerrera near Oban.
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Port Dubh on Kerrera and across The Firth of Lorn to Mull.
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On the island of Lismore in the Firth of Lorn.
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Overlooking the Firth of Lorn, near Ledaig on the West Coast of Scotland
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A view from McCaig’s Tower in Oban. The little car ferry, Eigg, makes its way across Oban Bay, while across the bay is the island of Kerrera and beyond that the Firth of Lorn and the island of Lissmore. Further still is the Sound of Mull, with the island of Mull to the left. The view continues to the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula. OLYMPUS E500 / ZUIKO 4/3 14-45mm Multimap Reference
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Stormy weather at Camas Rubha na Liathaig near Dunstaffnage in Argyll. / (Please view large) OLYMPUS E500 / ZUIKO 4/3 14-45mm Multimap Reference
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