A rough voyage

Got back from my trip to Mull this evening and am too tired to fill in the last few days. 

Briefly, today I went on a boat trip, counting seabird nests on the various islets around the island of Iona, a continuation of NTS work carried out last week. The boat concerned is the 'Birthe Marie', an ex-fishing boat built in Denmark in 1933. We motored - rather too wild for sailing I think - out to the small uninhabited islet of Reidh Eilean some two miles west of Iona, where somehow we managed to scramble ashore and where I tried to calm my heaving stomach while the others carried out their work. Hordes of bottle-nose dolphins playing around the boat, but hard to take pictures with one hand while hanging on with the other. 

More tomorrow.