November Sea

[anteros_lmc]

I know it's January now but I took these pictures in November when I was travelling up and down from the Outer Hebrides. Most of the time I flew but there was one week I couldn't get a flight and had to go by ferry, coach and train which is a rather gruelling 12 hour journey. Luckily the weather was uncharacteristically calm for November and I had a beautiful crossing. All these picture were taken while sailing into the mouth of Loch Broom at about nine in the morning.



MV Isle of Lewis, 9th November, wind south south west, force five, sea moderate.


Btw as these pictures were taken inside the mouth of the sea loch, the sea is "calm" rather than "moderate". However I can assure you it was much more "moderate" when we were out in open water!

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I have been a ferry rider most of my life. Moderate can feel real sporty!

Our Ferry crosses the Vineyard Sound. When I was young I took the ferry to Nantucket a few times. Longer trip. Lots of fog.

Can you not imagine Bush and Horatio roaming the ferry, looking and asking and wondering, and nodding to the themselves... I always say that I have to hold my husband by the arm to keep him out of the engine room. They would be right down there in no time-- and they would be drooling to get in the wheelhouse!

The pictures are lovely. You have the trick for taking pictures of water and sky. I always find that it can look amazing to the eye, and on the camera it comes out like a line.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I have been a ferry rider most of my life. Moderate can feel real sporty!
Hehe! Spoken like a true islander! I must admit that most of the time I hate ferry crossings. The Minch between Stornoway and the mainland only takes three hours to cross but it's a nasty stretch of water. It normally looks like this! Bush would have loved it, Horatio perhaps less so ;)

I have to hold my husband by the arm to keep him out of the engine room.
I have pictures of the engine room of the Glenlee which I've been meaning to post for you for ages. I thought of Mr E when I took them!

I'm glad you like the pictures. They are all taken with a crappy wee camera on an ancient mobile phone :}

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

Beautiful! I like the third one on the right best. That really is perfect calmness. :) Are those two white dots a little left of the center cottages?? If so, I want to have one!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Yup those white dots are houses. It's not often that it's this calm but when it is, it's beautiful. Unless of course it's the height of summer in which case you get eaten alive by midgies as soon as the wind drops!

[esteven]

Oh, I love all the photos. Nothing better than the sea and the sun. :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The crossing from Stornoway to Ullapool is only about three hours but the Minch is a ferocious stretch of water. I confess that I normally hate crossing by boat but on a calm day even I have to admit that it can be breathtakingly beautiful.

[esteven]

I often crossed to the UK by ferry (when ferries still went from Germany, or when the connections by train to the ferry harbours in Holland or Belgium), so yes, on a calm day the sea is at its most gorgeous. Once a crossing took three hours that was supposed to be one hour. Mugs and glasses were crashing to the ground left, right and center and later the lights in the harbour were wandering from below the huge bay windows to above them. I was glad to leave the boat

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not I have never crossed the Channel in a boat! I am ashamed to say that I try to avoid travelling by sea if at all possible. To many rotten crossings, like the one you describe above, have rather put me off boats! I am very much an armchair sailor these days :}

[esteven]

That past ride decided me never to use ferries before the end of April and after the end of September. Nowadays I use the chunnel when crossing. Such a comfortable ride. You should use it too when you come over for a visit. :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

That past ride decided me never to use ferries before the end of April and after the end of September.
Very sensible!

Nowadays I use the chunnel when crossing. Such a comfortable ride. You should use it too when you come over for a visit. :D
Sadly that would entail leaving our camper van behind as it runs on gas rather than petrol and apparently you are not allowed to take gas powered vehicles through the chunnel :/

[esteven]

Then I guess it is either make certain or use the short ferry from Dover to Calais...or fly over? I feel we can find a way...

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

I could quite easily believe these were taken in the height of summer, wonder what it looked like today...

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Possibly quite similar! I've just been on the phone to sister and apparently they have had a lovely day up there today. No gales at all!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Sailing through Loch Broom is lovely on a calm day. In the teeth of a gale, less so ;)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Aw. Just aw. And awe.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

At the time it was more *yawn* than awe. I had to get up at half five to catch that ferry!

[katriona-s.livejournal.com]

What a lovely scenery! I have to visit Outer Hebrides someday!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Oh I can thoroughly recommend a visit. It's a beautiful part of the world :)