David Abbott

Gometra 2023

Bristol ๐Ÿš™ โ†’ Carlisle ๐Ÿ›Œ x 1๏ธโƒฃ โ†’ Oban ๐Ÿšข โ†’ Mull โ›ด โ†’ Ulva ๐Ÿšต๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ โ†’ Gometra ๐Ÿ›Œ x 5๏ธโƒฃ โ†’ Ulva ๐Ÿšต๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ โ†’ Mull ๐Ÿšข โ†’ Glencoe ๐Ÿ“ท โ†’ Penrith ๐Ÿ›Œ x 1๏ธโƒฃ โ†’ Castlerigg ๐Ÿ“ท โ†’ Bristol ๐Ÿ›

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