Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Day 21 , 19th July.

 

Heading back for Oban in very still conditions.  We are passing Neist Point near the north-west tip of Skye.  You can just see the lighthouse.  It looks very different here from when we saw it on land.

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For a time the mist descended and we could hardly see anything.  It seemed the sort of weather where one might encounter the Marie Celeste.  We didn’t see her but were soon to make other sightings and the sea was amazingly still….

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An orca dorsal fin (not the flipper of a whale).

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Female orca.

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Male orca.  The birds appear to be ringed plovers.

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Fishing boat (dredger) in the distance.

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Ringed plovers.

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There are three orcas altogether.  A bull known as “John Coe” and two females.

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Common gull.

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Common gull.

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Lesser black-backed gull.

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Lesser black-backed gull.

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Gannet.

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Dolphins.

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Altogether, an incredible display in remarkably calm conditions.

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