I Spy

I have posted before on views of the goings on on the Minch through my spotter scope. Most of the ships and boats that ply the waters are fairly mundane even though some are pretty huge like the cruise liner at the end of this posting. I did manage to get a photo of what I take to be a schooner a few days ago.

Having said that the photo which I took with the Olympus might have less detail but it has a lot of atmosphere

and can be enlarged to achieve quite a reasonable degree of detail:

This cruise liner was, however, too far away to be captured by the Olympus in any real detail:

A Long Way Off

I have a spotter scope on a tripod in the study. It's good for watching birds, being nosey as to who it is on the beach, seeing whether Dave and Pat are in (or, more precisely, whether their car is there), seeing what the names of ships are as they ply up and down provided that they are close enough. This tanker was just a speck on the horizon with the naked eye but with Suilven in the background it seemed too good an opportunity for a photo to miss :