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Post by ray on Oct 12, 2018 21:30:14 GMT
One of the things I got to do during my diving career was visit just about all the main and minor islands round Scotland including St Kilda the last bit of land before America.. Here is what it looked like before the inhabitants were evacuated and the island went back to nature, the only thing there now is an early warning station with a few squaddies and during the summer some folk doing up the abandoned houses for the National Trust. When I went in the ruined houses on the Main Street the names of the folk who left them were carved on a stone in the fireplace.. youtu.be/W-CpkFgxx2Iray.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Oct 12, 2018 21:46:49 GMT
Ive been to Orkney (Twice), Shetland and the Outer Hebrides and they were bleak enough. No wonder they all buggered off. Must have been a harsh life.
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Oct 12, 2018 22:13:52 GMT
Was that you sitting outside that cottage, Ray, with the flat cap??
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Post by ray on Oct 13, 2018 9:11:01 GMT
If you get out to St Kilda you are very lucky, we booked 3 trips on the "Charna" live a board dive boat out of Oban and managed to get out once along with "Jon de Lune" another dive boat from Oban, we had been out there 3 days when the skipper of the JdL got on the radio to our skipper Jimmy, he said "there is going to be a big blow and we are setting off back as he had a load of bird watchers and they were pucking already".. Jimmy asked us what we wanted to do, so we decided to stay and finish the week.
Bad decision!.
Set off on the last day, the sea was reasonable in the lee of the islands until we shoved our nose into the Atlantic, all those big wave vids on U Tube are true, I and Bones stayed in the wheelhouse with Jimmy we couldn't leave him alone in this, it got round to night time when Sandra came up to us to announce our cabin door had been ripped off it's hinges and John Green had been thrown out of his bunk through a plastic window at high level into the corridor, that's OK nobody like him anyway!.
WE went through the sound of Harris and jimmy who had been at the wheel for 20 hours had to go to the engine room to see to the oily bits, so Bones took the wheel, I wiped the condensation off the screen and to my horror there was an unlit Cardinal Buoy and we were going to hit it if I hadn't wiped the window, the wheel was swung over and it slid down the side of the boat, Phew!..
Now if it was rough in the Atlantic that was nowt to when we came out of the sound of Harris into the Hebrean Sea, it was a nightmare and we had been travelling through this lot for a good thirty hours, the only respite was we tucked into the back of Canna for a few hours kip before we made our way to Tobamoray Harbour in the early hours, the moment we tied up we were all jumping ship to get into the "Mishnish" pub, it is open all hours for the fishermen, and we all got pissed, really pissed..
Oh and the diving was superb so it was worth it, just another diving adventure.
ray.
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Post by nicholsong on Oct 13, 2018 9:35:21 GMT
What people will go through for a really good piss-up
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Post by Dead Monger on Oct 13, 2018 9:38:02 GMT
Interesting that ... Just reading a little about the military buildings on the island ... According to a 2016 report the buildings are going to have a shed load of conga thrown at em to upgrade em
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Oct 13, 2018 9:48:12 GMT
Interesting that ... Just reading a little about the military buildings on the island ... According to a 2016 report the buildings are going to have a shed load of conga thrown at em to upgrade em Why is that? Are they planning for something?
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Post by ray on Oct 13, 2018 10:09:23 GMT
The mess room at the early warning has a bar and a film room, anybody who gets to Kilda can use it the same as the squaddies, we had some good night there boozing, the bar is called "The puff In" and is famous for being the farthest West pub in the British Isles, yes got the T shirt and Puff Inn mug they have for sale..
Didn't pay for them I bartered lobsters which the squaddies fell over themselves to get!.
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Post by Dead Monger on Oct 13, 2018 10:22:43 GMT
Interesting that ... Just reading a little about the military buildings on the island ... According to a 2016 report the buildings are going to have a shed load of conga thrown at em to upgrade em Why is that? Are they planning for something? Yep ... Half of Scotland if Krankie ever gets in
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Post by Dead Monger on Oct 13, 2018 10:24:04 GMT
The mess room at the early warning has a bar and a film room, anybody who gets to Kilda can use it the same as the squaddies, we had some good night there boozing, the bar is called "The puff In" and is famous for being the farthest West pub in the British Isles, yes got the T shirt and Puff Inn mug they have for sale.. Didn't pay for them I bartered lobsters which the squaddies fell over themselves to get!. ray. "the puff inn" ... Barrys had the puff inn and out and inn ....
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Post by nicholsong on Oct 13, 2018 11:44:54 GMT
Interesting that ... Just reading a little about the military buildings on the island ... According to a 2016 report the buildings are going to have a shed load of conga thrown at em to upgrade em Snake oil sales then?
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