All the sails up today on a port tack, with no engine. Glorious. Especially after a very rock & roll ride this morning heading into the force 7 northerly, with freezing drizzle. I felt quite seasick and happy to stand in the full brunt of the weather at the mast on lookout.
It was a very early start this morning and we travelled up the east coast of Skye and across the top, anchoring for the night in beautiful Dunvegan bay.
We’ve seen lots of sea birds, particularly while passing close by to the Shiants- uninhabited bird sanctuaries- guillemots, black guillemots, razor bills, fulmars, gannets, eider ducks, kittiwakes, various hills and puffins 😆. In this bay 2-3 common seals have come to look. Otherwise no marine mammal sightings or military ships 😏 We have heard their sonar and 3 fighter jets passed over.
After about 9 hours of working we moored on Skye and most of us went in the rib to the shore. The views from the small hill were glorious, of Silurian in the bay and the Black Cuillin Ridge snow pink in the setting sun.
As I write this Necky and Chris are checking today’s hydrophone recordings; already about a dozen harbour porpoises detected in this morning’s trace - we didn’t see any of them! But the sea state was pretty wild.
Silurian at anchor waiting for the rib to return
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