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Ruin at Shamhnan Insir |
Finally I made it to Shamhnan Insir with my camera on a sunny day! I've put some of the best photos up here as its really a beautiful place.
Towards the end of last week, we began mortality searching and on Friday walked to Shellesder Glen along the coastline. After many small gullies and streams cut into the hill and cliffs we came to the final ridge above Shellesder. Even with the overcast conditions and gale force easterly wind over our heads, it was another great landscape hidden away on this isle. Again I wished I had taken my camera as after we climbed off the ridge and searched for antlers and stags. Martyn encountered a huge otter which ran round his feet and up the hill, I only saw it because of his shouting! Considering we were 200 metres above sea level and a good distance from the sea, as well as the 50 metre cliffs which guard this stretch of coastline, how the hell this otter had made it all the way up here was a mystery. After a while of searching, we had picked up just a single antler (although we had seen a number of stags which had cast there antlers), so headed for home. This week looks to be much the same, after getting 2 of our guests to the ferry today, tomorrow will be another good days mortality searching unless the weather decides to change. We've had very clear nights over the weekend which has meant you can walk about outside at night without any trouble thanks the strength of the moonlight.
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One of the friendlier ponies |
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Kilmory |
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Ruin at Shamhnan Insir with Skye in the background |
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Unspoilt Shamhnan Insir bay |
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Sunshine on Kilmory Bay |
This photos was taken near to where I was fishing from the headland at the weekend. However again I've not had any luck apart from catching a small wrasse! The gannets were having a great time of showing me how its done as they dived for fish about 100 metres offshore, so I decided to head for home and leave to professionals to it. Any tips and hints would be very welcome, as I've tried all sorts of lures as well as strived to find the places with the least amount of kelp!
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2 Hinds (with a calf out of shot) feeding on seaweed |
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The burn flowing into the sea at Kilmory |
I forgot to say that you can click the images to enlarge them, they take ages to load so the quality should be good!
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