Tuesday July 3 (back to Kerrera)Woke to a peaceful morning with the sound of wading birds calling from the banks of our anchorage. Several boats left during the morning, while we awaited the tide to take us north, back to Oban/Kerrera. We had discovered that the rail strike planned in Scotland for Friday was still highly probable, so sadly it was best to book Cath's passage home to Deal for Thursday. Accordingly we weighed anchor and set off after lunch back up t...

Thursday 28 June (Oban Marina, Kerrera Island)Rain, rain and more rain! Cath braved it to take the ferry back to Oban to complete shopping, while I re-installed the Autohelm, which had been delivered back very promptly - and it works! We will have to go through the process of going slowly round in circles to set the compass deviation once we get back to sea. I did some odd jobs about the boat and Cath did our laundry, and in the evening we ate yet more oysters a...