First Stop: Glasgow by train May 2017	The University	Enjoying the sunshine on the River Kelvin	The Kennedy memorial Kelvingrove Park
Field Marshall Lord Roberts	University from the Roberts Statue	The Kelvingrove Museum from the Roberts Statue
The Memorial to the Highland Light Infantry	Statue of Kelvin himself!	Statue of Lord Lister	Kelvingrove Museum Centre Hall
Kelvingrove Museum West Court	Japanese Armour
Dali: Christ of St John of the Cross	Kelvingrove Museum East Court		The Art Galleries
	Van Gogh
Waiting for the Organ Recital		Monet
Grandson Will with Grandma			Will demostrating "slack lining" in Kelvingrove Park
	Not the recognised method
	Tight lining
		Stop 2: Oban and the Beginning of the cruise	Looking West
Oban Harbour		A ferry arriving	Harbour Entrance Light
	Sunset		The nearer islands ferry from our bedroom in the Queen's Hotel
Trying out the Jacuzzi	The Outer Hebrides Ferry		The Proud Seahorse, our boat
Weighing anchor in Oban	Embarkation: Oban Harbour	The Cruise
The Queen's Hotel		Leaving harbour	Oban Castle
		Overnight 1: Loch na Droma Buidhe
	Looking for wild life on the Ardnamurchan Peninsular	Success - a Sea Eagle Photo: Bryan Whichelo	Overnight 2: Tobermory
		Proud Seahorse at anchor
Walk along the coast		Towards the open sea
From the far pier	Some of the group: Judi, Catherine, Bryan, Lindsay (Naturalist), Robin		Rhododendron
Towards the Ardamurchan Peninsular			The Waverley Paddle Steamer Last seen from the train opposite Greenock
Setting off North to Kyle			The Cuillin
		Along the Sound of Sleat	Skye on the port side, the minland on the starboard
Sandaig Island	Approaching Glenelg		The Glenelg Ferry to Skye
	Approaching Loch Alsh	A Ferry	Anchored overnight near Kyle
Approaching the "new" bridge at Kyle
A Scallop Boat, conveying young to a propagation area		Rona for a walk and to anchor overnight
Catherine, Robin & Barbara	Robin, Barabara & Rob, the Skipper	Linday, the Naturalist and Katherine	Judi and Byian
Us!	Overlooking the anchorage	Linday and Pat, departing to join the main group	Peter staying with Barbara who preferred not to climb the hill
The main party returning	Skye from the North	Barabara and Rob, the Skipper	and also Ross, the Chef
The Shiant Islands		The Shiants
Approaching Eileen Mhaire		Guillemots and Razorbills
	The cliffs of Garbh Eilean
An accident at home. Subsequently, Pat could not go ashore and had to spend a lot of time in bed.	The Puffin Expedition	Barbara and the Chef riding round the bay	The Anchorage from the Puffin Hill Photo: Catherine Trimby
Testing the Zoom: the arch from the anchorage			Eilean Mhuire
	Eilean an Taighe
The Shiants from the South	Puffins and Guillemots
	Canna to walk and overnight		At anchor
The old Presbeteryan Church		The old Catholic Church
		In the exhibition in the church	Ram
	A rather larger cruise vessel
With Lindsay, Catherine and Judi on an expedition to see puffins	Katherine's ideal and idyllic cottage	The anchorage
A skua near her nest			The Puffin Stack; the single puffin invisible tin the picture
		Early purple orchid, orchis mascuka All flowers identified by Katherine
	Thrift, armeria maritima	Yellow flag iris, iris pseudacorus
	The Bridge from Sanday to Canna	The walk	The new catholic church
			A real phone box
Ross opening scallops harvested personally by the Skipper		Rum to walk and anchor overnight
	The anchorage and ferry slipway	The optimistic sign	Rhododendrons
From the otter hide.		Kinloch Castle
	Rum Ponies		Scallops for dinner ...
... harvested personally by the Skipper, Rob	The Cuillin		Approaching the Cuillins
Loch na Culice
		The shore expedition	The usual residents
Early purple orchid, orchis mascuka		Loch na Culice
Loch Coriusk		Sgurr a Mhadaidh	English stonecrop, sedum anglicum
Common butterwort, pinguicula vulgaris		Tormentil, potentilla erecta	Lousewort, pedicularis sylvatica
Thrift, armeria maritima	Birds foot trefoil, lotus coniculatus		Leaving the Cullin
Adnamurchan Point		The Waverly again, also heading for Oban	Pat, waiting to disembark
Oban harbour with the Waverley at the Quay	Our boat, the Proud Seahorse, empty, in the middle at anchor	The train home

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