The Dutchman's Cap as seen from Scarinish: (Dad says it looks like a cake on a plate, it does a bit!)
Scarinish Harbour was pretty busy, the Regatta was meant to be on this weekend but a combination of it having already been delayed one week and the weather looking less than fit for it means it was cancelled this year. Folk were getting their boats out of the water.
Weds evening saw Jo and I head off for a walk. We trotted down to the beach and saw some unusual sights.
A yacht. I'd seen some white triangle on the horizon while we were walking down and Jo suggested using the camera's 26x zoom to see what it was.
A sheep carcass, most of which was here but we saw bones scattered for about 200m altogether.
A jellyfish:
Lots of seaweed that I photographed for colour ideas.
For the walk back I suggested we walk along the Reef, meaning follow the road but walk on the machair. Jo suggested we try the more direct route. There were lots of flowers out and blooming:
It was certainly an adventure. We identified the house and made a bee line. The first obstacle was the fence around the landing tarmac for the airport. No problem, we'll walk around it. The undergrowth was rather thick and deep in places....
So deep that Jo left footwells rather than prints!
Then I remembered how the airport is surrounded by a fence and that the road to the airport is before our house. So we got to the airport road and climbed over the fence, went through a gate on the other side and carried on. I lost my feet down the odd hoofprint but we made it home and did our best calf impressions and slipped through our own fence. Certainly an interesting walk, shame about all the clegs/horseflies. Jo got a couple of nibbles but apparently I'm the tastier option, to quote Jo "we come for the sweat, we stay for the bloooooood" and boy did they! I had five or six bites on one elbow and two on the other. They've only just stopped itching.
There was a gorgeous sunset that evening though:
I'm knitting Christmas items for the Christmas Fayre (I assume there will be one!) and have more ideas for my Etsy shop! I made a big yarn order, most of which has arrived and I have many plans for it. I've got 15 skeins of various blends and have some merino/cashmere/nylon on backorder too. Lovefibre, Nicola and myself are going to have a dyeing day sometime soonish and now I know that dyed yarn dries quicker if it's turned out onto the lawn so I can dye and rinse and dry in one day rather than two!
I'm also running a dye bath in the garage. We bought some green emrboidered but otherwise white bedding with the intention of dyeing it and now I have, plus three t-shirts and soon another set of bedding. It takes longer to exhaust an alkaline dye bath than an acid one. Anyhoo, as I'm lacking photos of those I shall leave off for now and get back to knitting.
TTFN.
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