Vectis Harrier with Wind Turbine Blades

15.3C cloudy in the morning, brightening towards the middle of the day with sunny spells developing through the afternoon. Moderate WSW breeze becoming light Westerly.

Grocery shopping over by mid morning. We left Maeve the Deerhound at home, as we have been doing the last few Sundays.

We went the ten miles or so South to Southend then followed the road round past Dunaverty beach to Carskey Bay where we had a walk with Maeve from one end of the beach to the other and back. The sea was calm and the tide was only just starting to go out. Maeve went in and out of the sea when she didn't think the little waves would catch her. As we walked along a Grey seal kept popping up to have a look then bobbing down and reappearing just ahead in the direction we were walking. He or she seemed very curious. There were several companies of Gannets flying along parallel to the shoreline, plenty of gulls, oystercatchers, ringed plovers, and towards shore cottage at the far end of the beach there were two Dunlin.

On the way home we stopped at Keil cemetery and watched a good number of seals swimming around deciding whether to haul out on the rocks and which rock they would choose. There was a mother with her youngster out the rocks but they were disturbed by a man and his two little boys going too close for a look. We watched for a while and the two were swimming round the same cluster of rocks just waiting to come out when they thought it was safer. We would like to think this was the mother and baby we saw a few weeks ago.

On the road back to Campbeltown we stopped at the farm stand but were disappointed to see there was no produce for sale. All sold out or not yet restocked after yesterday perhaps. Either way, no eggs or salad we bought today.

When we reached town, as some compensation for lack of healthy farm produce, we decided to stop and buy freshly made local ice cream. Vanilla and Tablet ... a West of Scotland ultra sweet tooth special :-)

While Apothecary7 was buying the ice cream I went across to the old quay and took a few shots of Vectis Harrier at the new quay, fully loaded with wind turbine blades.

E-PL5 f/10 1/500 sec. ISO-200 17mm