Lismore ferry

I had to go up to Ledaig this morning, so we continued up the coast to Port Appin where we planned to have a picnic, seeing as it was a beautifully sunny day. Unfortunately not long after we arrived the sky clouded over and although the sun shone to the north and to the south, from the west came a huge black cloud which proceeded to batter us with hail, sleet, rain or a combination of all three. We had our lunch in the car!

The hail did give up for a while so I was able to take a few photographs.

The main Blip is of the little passenger ferry 'The Lismore' which plies between Port Appin and the north end of Lismore; the extra is the 'Rose of Lorne', a ship belonging, I think, to Glensanda Quarry and loaded with a couple of vans, a tractor with a trailer full of aggregate and various other articles. According to the website 'Marine Traffic', she was built in 1965 and is 36 metres long with a beam of 10 metres and was bound for Loch Creran, a sea-loch just a little to the south. Such useful information, I know!