Gometra 2023
Bristol ๐ โ Carlisle ๐ x 1๏ธโฃ โ Oban ๐ข โ Mull โด โ Ulva ๐ต๐ปโโ๏ธ โ Gometra ๐ x 5๏ธโฃ โ Ulva ๐ต๐ปโโ๏ธ โ Mull ๐ข โ Glencoe ๐ท โ Penrith ๐ x 1๏ธโฃ โ Castlerigg ๐ท โ Bristol ๐
Five nights in May on Gometra in the Inner Hebrides. I stayed in Teacher's Bothy, bookable here via Airbnb. Photos were taken with my Fujifilm X-T2 with XF 18-55mm and iPhone.
Drawings from the trip are here and the first paintings I made on my return are here.
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Breakfast at Oban Tesco. Tattie scone was good
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First sight of the bridge over to Gometra
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Rhoda's Honesty Shop and Gallery, Gometra
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Managed to get the bike over the deer fence
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Teacher's Bothy on arrival
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Front to back: Gometra, Little Colonsay, Mull
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The Paps of Jura from Gometra with Mull in the middle ground
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Cruising around Staffa
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Dun Eiphinn
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Old schoolhouse Gometra
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Found Painting No.1
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Found Painting No.2
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Landing stage, NW Gometra
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Treshnish Isles from west Gometra
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Dun Ban, excavated on their first expedition in 1962 by the School's Hebridean Society which was founded by my dad
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Dun Ban
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Dun Ban
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Blackhouse on Ulva
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Oystercatchers
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Dun Eiphinn
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Baileclaidh
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Little Colonsay
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Treshnish Isles, last night
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Ulva Boathouse from Mull
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Flatbread and mackerel waiting for the ferry at Fishnish
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Travelodge, back on-grid
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Counting treasures on the kitchen table at home
May 12, 2023
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