Keeping Track and Moving On

Here's to a new blog and keeping track of what I'm up to!

As it stands, I am reading a bit like a braille novel (thanks Jojo!) with tick and midgy bites but another summer on the west coast of Scotland was brilliant as always. Living on a small island in a very tight knit community, with ever changing groups of children racing by to learn their outdoor skills from us. Our friendly neighbours are the eagles, otters, seals, basking sharks, dolphins, porpoises, gannets, the list goes on. Our home is a cosy wooden house, unique and very jolly. Our lives are dictated by the tide and the wind "All hail, Gods of the breeze". We eat outrageous amounts of hearty homecooked food and are constantly entertained by the musical and theatrical talent of our island family. Days off mean sleeping in a van and yomping, climbing, swimming, paddling and drinking. VERY happy adventures.

The view from North Point of Ru'a Fiola, our home island

 Home

 Freshly caught in our pots. Dinner

 On expedition on Scarba in North Bay

 A basking shark. No zoom, no joke!

 Looking North West towards the Isle of Mull

 Ru'a Fiola, Meadhonach, Droma, Iosal seen from Lunga on a lovely classic scottish overcast day

I write this now having left the island and I am moving back to Kendal to work in the Lakeland Climbing Centre (shameless advertising but it's a really good wall to climb at, well worth a visit).

However, this week is to be spent in roasting temperatures, getting sunburnt and catching up on a summer's worth of sleep. I am in Turkey. But that'll be a new blog, in a week.