miscellaneous musings

The vibration of the engine produced concentric circles in our drinks.  Bearing in mind our bodies are mostly liquid, this was happening inside us too.  This is not necessarily a bad thing but fascinating.  Maybe it was partly why we slept so well.

A blue sky with a central sun reflected in the water:  waves create a lid:  the giant's eye watched from under the sea.

Bruises on Boats or bob for short - which incidentally is how they happen - more appeared the following day.  These created my personalised chart of the Inner Hebrides.  I'm happy to report after the first couple of weeks, I didn't acquire many more. 

In the sunlight, our mooring buoy looked like an exotic sea creature with elongated seaweed tentacles and a chain tail holding it to the seabed.  A variety of flat leaved and wrinkly leaved seaweed; seaweed with buoyant pods and long thin, ribbon type weed added to its character. 

Processed cheese slices, bought in error, are perhaps, to some, the gold leaf of the sandwich and burger world.  In my opinion, application is the only similarity.  

 

The layers of colour on the rock in sheltered water, seem to be consistent wherever we go.  The image above shows the colours soon after low tide.  The rising water has just covered the layer of seaweed.  At high tide, the water covers the lower sandy colour.  

"We watched terns taking turns to take turns round the shore while we turned."

"Fishermen came to collect a crab/lobster pot marked by a buoy.  Not an obstacle as first thought - although they are obstacles.  OB5 (Oban No5) not OBS."

"Fairy Tale Scotland:  blue sky, blue sea, breeze, everything is sparkly and gorgeous."