On Mull

[wellinghall]

Well, we're coming to the end of the first week of our holiday, and what a great week it's been! We've seen:
- castles
- otters
- eagles (golden and white-tailed - and, in an aviary, bald)
- buzzards
- lots of small birds, like wheatears, stonechats and whinchats
- seals
- porpoises
- lots and lots and LOTS of puffins
- basalt columns (in Fingal's cave)
- Tornadoes
- and an aircraft carrier!

The weather has varied from great to glorious - food pretty good - drink likewise. I had oysters and guinness for lunch yesterday - mmm!

After a week in Tobermory*, we're now about to leave Mull for three days on Iona, then head back to the mainland for three more days in Oban.

*Tobermory features multifarious Balamory souvenirs, and the odd Saki** book. However, there are no wombles at all. *sulks*

**He wrote a story called Tobermory, about a talking cat. It's good.

Comments

[colinbj.livejournal.com]

Which aircraft carrier?

If you happen to catch 8 or 10 eagles we have a society project for eagle-powered flight, now that modern materials are available for the harness.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Alas, it was too far away, and the light too dim, to spot the number. I'm pretty sure it was one of ours, but beyond that I can't tell you, I'm afraid.

They tend to get a bit stroppy if you try to take eagles off the island ...

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Tornadoes?! Eep. But the birds sound and look wonderful.

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. Capitalized. Heh. Cool!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Indeed - these are the sort with swing-wings, and lots of armaments under them! But the birds are, indeed, very cool!

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Glad yuo had a nice time- I didn't know that you like Saki- which is your favourite story?

[(Anonymous)]

Been a big fan ever since they were read to us in English in the third year. Favourite? Hard to say - there are so many good ones! Gabriel-Ernest, maybe?

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

I like the reticence of Lady Anne. Nasty.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's another good one.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

The other one I really like is the short novel "When William Came" which I find disturbingly believable for the time.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

OTOH, I cannot get into "The Westminster Alice" - no doubt very funny at the time, but "The time" was a hundred years ago!

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get into that either. Probably too many in jokes.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Have you read the recently-released collection of previously-unknown short stories?

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

No- sounds interesting.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Get rustica to give you my email address, I'll get your snail mail address, and I'll send / lend it to you.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fantastic holiday ::is green with envy:: I've never seen a wild otter, and would love to.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We were very pleased to be able to see them - close enough that we could see plenty of detail with binoculars, although not really close enough to photograph, unfortunately.

[bouncy-elf.livejournal.com]

WOW WOW WOW! Eagles!!! And wild otters! And porpoises! (I can save them, but I've never seen one. Saw a glimpse of a dolphin once!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hebridean sheep, too :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We've been lucky enough to go whale-watching off both California and Iceland :-)