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okey-dokey well what we can share now is

our view on Scotland we honestly only

what our classes sort of like scrape the

edges of Scotland we have not explored

the full extent of Scotland by any long

job no let's see what we generously

Inner Hebrides yeah lower Inner Hebrides

those copper ones at that so so this

view does not cover the whole of

Scotland it just gives you a little bit

of an insight on what we found in

Scotland and where we went to Scotland

but you've got all the videos as to

where we are but this is just sort of

like an overall overall view of what we

did in Scotland so we started we

apologize for nice we're doing this

video today because it's blown an

absolute gale outside the board is

rocking and rolling so all the creaking

turbines the thumps the hundreds

laughing yeah so we started in poor

Ellen yes and for us poor Ellen got the

best variety award because what I'm

looking for I've decided for a walk you

know somewhere where I can get a decent

wall I want a couple of points of

interest that's close by so that there's

something to actually go and do and then

on top of that I want shops and to be

able to buy things so those are the kind

of things I'm looking for and of course

we managed to get a free bottle of

sample of Laphroaig because we had

become friends of Laphroaig

oh my goodness oh do you spoil anyway

nobody could actually finish the

Laphroaig bounty on camera but anyway so

good points of interest and but not the

greatest place to have a blow in

definitely not farewell Port Allen yes

you do right

so from corella we went to gear or Giga

depending how you pronounce it depends

who you talk to and one thing about gear

was Mearing bolts were not a problem

they had so many marine balls they could

probably get them away the choice

between the marine ball and the palm

tone was about a fiver a night we did

the marine ball because we wanted to get

salty sausage off because that was our

challenge because um I like challenging

God and said that I was good I thought

we got the same because rich I mean to

spend the extra fire I'm so glad you

said that yes we did the marine Bowl

because we wanted to get salty sausage

off because that was our challenge

definitely um you know we didn't the

crunch the extra fiber that we save by

doing that that was just spent it in the

gear restaurant which was very nice but

gear is somewhere that I would have

liked to spend a little bit more time

with because I've got it all planned in

my head that we were gonna hire a and

bicycle there for it was throwing it

down yeah really I needed to hire a gear

was oil skin it's just unfortunate with

the weather it was so he was somewhere

that I would have liked to spent a bit

more time okay um but anyway we don't

just say there the knight understand

walk

so and then we got an invite from one of

our subscribers but Mullins to go and

see him hmm

I would say about tabling an incredibly

picturesque little place they've only

got three mooring balls but they've now

got a pontoon that you can yeah so

that's got five extra spaces but just

around the corner from table ik because

one of the yachty people from liverpool

was there there was a good anchor party

a very good eye crease just for the

north of Sanok we didn't see it but the

chap we know Clive uses it quite

frequently and he says it's a really

really good Anchorage so that's just

north of table ik such a picturesque

little place but not very much in the

way of shops and the mobile signal is

zero so yeah if if you want to get away

from everything that is a great place

great because we really needed to get a

pilot notes because we wanted to do

Anchorage's and that's something that

you really need is is some pilot notes

yeah old phone lots of moving balls

outside the harbour and I would say that

if you arrive in office hours you won't

have a problem if you arrive outside

office hours you're probably better

taken the mirroring ball for the night

I'm waiting till the office opens in the

morning because getting into the

pontoons can be tricky

do you know exactly where a visitor goes

because we couldn't find any marking

saying visitor prompting so in the end

we just went to the Mary bar mmm it was

easier to go there and deal with it the

morning mmm

good Chandler's odd phone so if you're

looking for nuts and bolts and quite a

few of the little just tiny little thing

I was never in nine-to-five they were

extremely helpful no kibbles era

whatsoever

moving uh yeah from our phone we went to

open know the Simran isn't open one in

the western side which is of Marina and

one on the Tyne side which is open

transit marina and in the transit one

you can stay for three days on the other

marina you can stay for much longer

we initially went to open Marina the

western one on the island of Carrera and

very very friendly marina very friendly

staff nice little pub but sadly we're

having to give them the wooden spoon

I know it's plastic we're just gonna

have to work with yeah work with us on

this I know it's a plastic spoon but I

have to give them the wooden spoon for

the shara facilities because it's not

the fact that you have to pay a pint to

get the shower it's the fact to put the

money in the slot it's on the outside of

the shower room and you're on the inside

of the shower room and if it runs like

halfway through your shower you have to

walk start Nick it into a public area to

put another binding just move it inside

the door guys be a big improvement I'll

just point out in another marina further

up that will come to you in a bit they

had exactly the same payment system

inside the cubicle yeah so open there's

good walks good points of interest every

other water taxi to the time wore on a

water taxi so that's quite interesting

you know to make it a little bit more

interest they had the only deal we heard

about which was if you were there for

seven nights you only paid for six that

was the only deal that we heard about

but we didn't say though so I did the

downside if there's wind from the wrong

direction or swell coming through from

the ferries and things like that you did

get bounced around a bit if you're on

the outside of the pontoons and so

because of that we had around the corner

to done stuff niche which was for the

wind direction in question which was the

southerly doesn't staff beach was much

more sheltered but it's very isolated

it's very very quiet got a pupil stroked

and a fairly decent Chander's but it is

a very quiet spot I mean forget times

and things it's just

so points of interest yeah for anybody's

not the Pythian fan I was done it to

find out about three weeks later that if

I'd come out of done stuff needs to turn

right and gone about five miles out of

fine castle argh

which is quite famous and the Monty

Python and the Holy Grail movie and I

would love to find it but I didn't they

turned the other way and we went to rock

healing uh yeah so luckily was somewhere

that we did not see in its best hiding

under eye area and we didn't even get

off

salty land driving really yeah because

it was however if we had have got off

apparently there are some good fossils

to go and look for however we didn't we

didn't see any of them to see anything

particularly marked read a spongy like a

cork on a mirroring and luckily and the

finial earring so no complaint sir we

went to tobermory

and Tobermory is marine ball and they

are everywhere and there's plenty room

in the pontoons there was and again that

also had lots of interest so you've got

a good town you've got lots of shops

good variety of shops you've got a

distillery inside that in the town

itself so if you obviously like your

whiskey that's something to be looking

out for got quite a few nice walks

around place so you know it's the kind

of thing that Bev and I are looking for

is sort of like we want to be able to do

something we like to be able to take up

out and this is something we've learnt

about ourselves most in a quiet spot but

if there's something to do as well yeah

exactly so I'd say that table more is

something that somewhere that you should

think about going yourself very quaint

and everything around the just across

the bay from there is the Anchorage that

we finally put the anchor down in which

was not robbery and although absolutely

fantastic quiet

Anchorage there's

this urine at your nut you're an

inclusive lock with fairly high walls

around out of limestone and things like

that

there's no mobile signal system VHF

signals there's no Heiser's there's no

electric there's no people there's

nothing actually just you and fifty

billion ferns from there we went back to

urban but this time we went to the

transit marina the transit marina got

our second prize for the toilet

facilities great shower facilities

because it had good shower facilities

and of course you've got the town on

doorstep on your doorstep so if you do

want to have a bit nightlife you're not

having to sort of like schedule

everything with these though you're

really really close to the car ferries

and you expect to get bounced around a

lot they have put concrete pontoons in

and they really stop the swell so the

car ferries are running around a hundred

yards away and there's no swell you're

not bouncing around like a cork that's

on if you're on the inside water break

water because you can if you're a bigger

boat like very much the very most of the

mirrors and these are are on the inside

of the breakwater yeah but they put the

bigger boats like for instance the Lord

nil so the Lord Nelson which let's be

honest it's about a hundred feet long

it's a hundred feet long so it's a huge

boat yeah that was on the outside so but

on the inside because we were on the

inside there was no swell from those or

anything from the various the studies

are wrong but you can only stay there

three nights

three nights after that we went to

Trillin yeah we did the Anchorage who

did another Anchorage which was just

who's a nice Anchorage but we relearn

the lesson that if you can't get off on

the dinghy there's not much point in

being in the Anchorage that's true then

we went to critten then we went to Crane

and yeah and we decided to do the

craning canal and that cost us a hundred

nineteen thirty quid which and Musco the

marinas which were we were doing were

about thirty three pound a night for

thirty threes is 132 so we decided the

mesmo got our money's worth out of the

Crillon and do

over four nights so our first night was

actually at grinnin marina our Korean

sort of basin isn't our second night was

at the top the second night is at the

top and I was third and fourth nights

were and I think it's Trish aghh yes so

on the grinning canal it's expensive but

if you want to avoid bad weather gonna

run the Mulliken tower it's an option

it's an option

Beverly won't be doing canals again but

that's only because she doesn't why I'm

not a canal person no but you also

didn't like the narrow confines I didn't

like the fact that things like pontoons

were like a niche longer than the vote

hmm yeah I mean and canals were about an

inch wider than the vote things I mean

they really cut it to the bone and

canals we do but anyway so um we did the

canal yeah from there we're gonna just

turn the page and we went into the Clyde

no we were we were lower like fine by

then and through the weather took a bit

of a turn and we decided to nip into

Tarbert and have a shelter yes and

locked Arbor is our winner for the

flower block Awards heated floors in the

shower block really nice shower blocks

amid Lee it is brand new so um it's roll

done no I know but it was really really

nice shower blocks

I saw the harbor very quint many nice

shops plenty of nice shops I didn't

didn't go much further than the town

yeah I'm sure if you were there for a

bit longer you could have found some

nice points of interest but certainly a

nice little harbour and it was great

little place out of the blue wasn't it

back there we skedaddle over to large

but to be honest we're in and idle argh

so quick this hardly seems fair to judge

this uh yeah but satin sails did a great

job on Streisand seals did a great job

and we got some bargains in the Childers

yes cuz we got the dry matting from

there and we got some pile of books in

there which will reduce time yep

so getting secondhand or sort of older

pilot books always a good idea so yes so

we went to logs and then from there we

went to mill port which it wins the most

surprising find award purely because

we'd never heard of the place before I

know why I mean if we've never heard of

Tarbert it would probably be a contender

but mill port we didn't know the

existence when somebody said why did you

go to mill important so we did all but

the moorings were fantastic murmurings

yep and the other thing about those

particular Maurice is they were like 10

pounds a night for the visitor moorings

and there were a couple both didn't know

where what they were which were

apparently free but I didn't see those

particular ones but the ones that got

the word visitor on a 10 pounds of so in

a great time milk or and then after that

we skedaddle over to tree now Troon is

one of the places you can get a deal

only if you have got a only if you are

murder in your permanent marina and it's

a trans-europe marina so if you have got

a trans-europe card then you can get a

discount there you can't get discount

which is five nights at half price but

once again Trane is one of those that

it's a little hard for us to judge it

comes with a bit of a soft spot for

trading because we bought a softy

doesn't ring yeah but the shops not too

far they've got a decent supermarket

within easy walking distance and the

marina building and showers and they're

very very nice as well

Pedro so from June we went across Tulum

Lachelle um lush oh all I just want to

say in the Firth of Clyde we had some

great sailing mmm because the wind isn't

quite as tunneled as what we it's very

big and wide so the wind doesn't funnel

about you so we actually had some

sailing we okay it wasn't a short sale

down to Tarbert but that was okay until

got really bit windy then we had a

fantastic sail over to sat in the sails

and we had a good sail from mill port as

well yeah I'll meet a fairly decent seal

from Trent or by 10 miles I or five

miles like from lamb nice let me to put

the engine on at that point yeah but we

got quite a lot of we got a lot of the

way and then there's the wind just died

and we were stuck in the middle of

nowhere

yeah but we've got good good sales so

anyway wind open a lamb latch again

moorings at 10 pounds rich juice and

again somewhere we did not see that's

best because the weather was absolutely

fine

it was so ah my friend lamb night was

just a big gray patch ah so unfortunate

yeah but anyway we were there and like I

say somewhere that I think with better

weather I think it would be brilliant

but we just did not see it as his best

but it certainly wealth tected and also

I'd like to found out a little bit more

about the marine conservation area

because that's something that's close to

our hearts is now and then from lamb

lash we skedaddle over time because we

had noticed the weather forecast it was

a weather window coming up which would

be very very good for crossing the North

channel to Ireland and holy bean in the

North channel a few times in the last

few months we've decided we'd like to be

in the North Channel but we have the

nicest weather possible because we're

feeding the North channel mediocre well

they're quite frank you don't really

want to be there so we laid it over to

Campbell time in double-quick time in a

horrible grey weather and that was the

one time in our Scottish Odyssey that we

completely lost sight of land even

though it was only five miles away the

mist was so heavy we couldn't see a

thing so that was totally instrument

sailing because we couldn't see where I

was going

yeah we got into Campbell time

yeah we've got a mooring because

everybody was rafted up on the it's not

a very big marina and people start

drafting up quite quickly and it gets

overloaded so we stack a marine ball and

then they went to the next day to pick

up some diesel hmm

and then that was it so the end of our

Scottish on say yeah if that was my

coverage northern oh so so overall where

we did the best sailing was in the Firth

of Clyde Clyde and Loch Fyne and also

when we did a lot fine that was the best

sailing all of the lap we did an awful

lot more motoring than I'd like

and I think that's to do with the

topography in the fact that things are

just funneling and yeah we can tack but

when you tuck in all the time we tried

tugging a locker ignition we nearly

round the side yeah so because it's so

narrow that by the time you got the

bolts settled on the tacky of virtually

run into depth so so um so a bit more

motoring than we'd like as you can see

because we only went up just sort of

like two Tobermory we haven't explored

very much of Scotland so this is only a

it's somewhere that we all go again but

I think what we'll do next time when we

go again is will be better equipped to

anchor and more knowledgeable and I

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