This is another excerpt from my trip notes. These are about the first stop we made once we got underway on the Ocean Endeavour.
Saturday June 17, 2023 Isle of Islay
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| We are the bluebells. Dawn the botanist thought we should learn some of the names of the local plants rather than just being in a colour group. |
It was a pretty good day today. We got to Islay later than expected as we couldn’t quite make the speed they hoped for. We got another packed lunch and, once we landed we ate our lunch in the square. It wasn’t dumping rain but it was grey and spitting.
If it had been a nicer day I would have pulled out the drawing equipment. There were lots of interesting things to try to draw but I didn’t want to get the notebook wet. We had quite a while to wander around the town before we took another bus, (we’ve been doing that a lot lately) to Finlaggan an ancient seat of the Lord or the Isles https://www.finlaggan.org/
We walked through a sheep pasture and managed not to get too much sheep poop on our boots. Once we had listened to a talk on Finlaggan and taken some time to poke around there on our own, we took the bus back to town. There wasn’t anything else we really wanted to see there, having visited the church and the church yard right after lunch, so we took a zodiac back to the ship.
I opened up the chocolate chilli chai that I bought in Glasgow and made myself a cuppa. It’s a good thing that I made it half as strong as the stuff I get from David’s tea because that is some spicy! I coughed and sputtered for a while and then, eyes watering, proceeded to enjoy it. It’s nice to have my own tea this year because in the dining room they interchange the pots they coffee in with the ones they put hot water in for the tea and the tea tends to taste a bit off. There’s always hot water in the library so I’m not restricted to tea at meal times.
Our group is in the first group for Fingal's cave at 7:30 tomorrow morning. https://www.wildaboutargyll.co.uk/blogs/how-to-visit-fingals-cave-and-why-you-need-to/
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| I liked the title of this eatery. |
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| Main street of Bowmore. There is a distillery there. We didn't visit it. |
Nice view from the main building
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| Taking our time among the ruins |
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