Tobermory

This is not the first time I have blipped Tobermory, but it is a very blippable location.

This picture, taken from the top of the pontoons by the Harbour Authority building, shows most of the places I was today (though they are probably easier to identify if you go large )

I started by presenting an Investors In People Award to Richard and Esplin, the owners of the Western Isles Hotel (the imposing four story building with a conservatory almost in the centre) then held a surgery in An Tobar, the Arts Centre (a little out of this picture - imagine it being off to the left and near the top) and went on to have lunch in Cafe Fish which is the art deco building just right of centre.

In fact we ate out on the balcony, to the right of the building itself and the sun was warm. The building is the old pier office so there was lots to see on the water though not much can distract you from the great food. Little wonder it is the Good Food Guide UK Seafood Restaurant of the year 2012 - one of the many superb reasons for coming to Mull.

Later in the day I had to go over to Loch Buie, where the Rhododendron Ponticum , presently in full purple flower, covers acres of moorland and woodland and is spectacular.