Trip to Mull and Iona
Around
June 2009, I took a trip to the Isle of Mull. I stayed at a very nice hotel http://www.highlandcottage.co.uk in
Tobermory. As I probably should have expected, it was a cold and blustery weekend
but was dry. It was so cold, I had to
buy a woolly hat and scarf to stay warm on my planned whale watching trip the
next day.
Tobermory
is a pretty fishing village, used to film ‘Balamory’, a children’s programme from
around 2002, with lots of different coloured houses. Tobermory also has it’s own distillery, and,
although I didn’t go to the distillery, I did, of course, buy some whisky (see separate post).
As
with so many whale watching trips that I have done, I didn’t see a whale (I finally
managed to see a family of whales and one breached close to the boat in 2014
off Fremantle, Australia), we did see porpoises and a basking shark, and a poor
lady who was seasick from the moment we left the port until our return 7 hours
later.
During
the trip we went to an Island whose name now escapes me, but the Captain had described
it as the Caribbean in Scotland of which of course no one believed. However, he was right, the sea was as blue as
I have seen anywhere in the World and crystal clear. We stopped here to have lunch, and feeling
brave, I took my shoes and socks off and stuck my toe in the water. It was as
if I had stood in a bucket of ice. I
have never known water as cold as that in my life!
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