Ullapool

is a busy little place.  It's the town on the Scottish mainland from where the ferry for Lewis departs.  It's an important tourist town but, in addition to the ferry, there is an inshore fishing fleet and lots of leisure boats. I was in the town for an evening recently when I got the midnight ferry (which left at 2am) and managed a few photos.  The last photo is looking back up Loch Broom into the Highlands towards the capital of the Highlands: Inverness 60 miles away.

Today From My Window

Ambleside and A Memory for Mo

On our way home we stopped the night in Ambleside and in the morning we had a wander down to the lake side (Ambleside is at the northern end of Lake Windermere).  There was a time when the town would have been of secondary interest and we'd have been up walking in the fells.  Now our enjoyment is confined to photography and the lower levels.  I'd like to think that when I get a new knee I'd be able to climb a Munro again but something tells me that by then I'll be too unfit.  Qui sait ?

The wooden rowing boats (which are actually sculled not rowed) and the two old wooden lake steamers
My wife and I (I think I did help) sculled one round the north end  of the lake on our honeymoon.

The terrace on which Mo and I had an ice cream back in the day (ie I've forgotten the date).

Queen of the Lake (Built 1949) and Princess of the Lake (Built 1950)

See details at: Queen of the Lake and Princess of the Lake 

The Pier Buildings

I don't recall an ice cream cabin being there when I was a lad

A Good Day For Boats

Today has been a good day for boats.  If one can call the cruise ship Queen Mary II a boat.  She's on a cruise around the British Isles at the moment.  The little sailing boat, on the other hand, was just out for a wee sail in the sun.

A Funny Little Boat

Ploughing through The Minch on a mad October day.... Actually it was a pretty calm day which is just as well. It certainly didn't look like a boat made for heavy seas.