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Over the August Bank Holiday we spent a week on the Isle of Coll in the Inner Hebrides. This was the first time we had been out of our local area since the beginning of lockdown in March. It was very disconcerting to see so many people in the motorway service stations and on the ferry especially as we had kept very much to ourselves over the last few months. As we are still free from Covid, the Covid secure measures and our aversion to other humans seems to have done the trick! The trip was mainly to see and perhaps photograph Basking Sharks and we went with Basking Shark Scotland on a three day trip. The first two days the weather was ideal for us but obviously not for the sharks as we only saw one fin which was very disappointing to say the least. It wasn't for lack of trying as we were out for most of the two days. The sea was too rough to go out on the final day and we had to be satisfied with a snorkel in very murky waters in the local harbour. We stayed in an excellent cottage on a lovely and very photogenic bay and spent the rest of the week taking landscape images and exploring the Island , when it wasn't raining and the wind wasn't at gale force! On the way down to 'our' beach we came across a large number of flowering Grass of Parnassus which kept the cameras occupied, especially on the last morning when the winds finally died down.
GRASS OF PARNASSUS AT CRAIMNEACH BAY
GRASS OF PARNASSUS
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FLOWERS OF GRASS OF PARNASSUS
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