Circumnavigation of Scotland! Skye and Orkney to Jura via the Caledonian Canal 2007 Photo Gallery by Steve Goldthorp at pbase.com

Circumnavigation of Scotland! Skye and Orkney to Jura via the Caledonian Canal 2007

Leaving Glasgow on July 12th I joined Wind of Gare at Portree. Stormbound until the 14th we travelled via Cape Wrath to the mouth of Hoy and into Stromness, Orkney arriving 15th. Leaving Stromness at 0500 on the 18th via a glorious sunrise in Scapa Flow we made Airth Hope to await the ebb in the Pentland Firth. A rare bacon, egg and fresh coffee breakfast when we saw a small basking shark! A fast transit was made passing Duncansby Head, bypassing Wick to spend the night in picturesque Lybster. The Caithness coast gave way to the Dornoch and Cromarty Firths and so to Inverness where we entered the Caledonian Canal

(Caledonian Canal Skippers Guide)
(Great Glen Walk and Map Available Here)

Transiting the canal in 3 days and 2 nights we went on to circumnavigate Jura visiting West Loch Tarbet to 'The Hole'!.

Charts are at the end of the gallery (courtesy of Alastair!).

The trip was completed by arriving Loch Melfort on July 24th. A superb cruise! Thankyou Alastair, Sandy, Tom, John and the Wind of Gare!

PS If you find any image titles are incorrect please let me know - particularly the 'Hill view' ones!

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Early Light Portree	Portree	Cuillin Hills	Skye
Skye	Quirang	Stoer Lighthouse	Oily calm
View to Loch Laxford	Entering Loch Inchard	Loch Bervie	Nimrod at Kinlochbervie
Nimrod	Nimrod	Nimrods stern	Stern reflection
Nimrod and friend	Nimrod and pontoon, Kinlochbervie	Reflection	Reflections
Bow	Nimrods bow	Nimrod at Kinlochbervie	Kinlochbervie
Rain over Bay of Keisgaig	Cape Wrath in view	Genoa Wrath	Cape Wrath
North of Cape Wrath	Sandy	John	Dolphins 1
Dolphins 2	Dolphins 3	Dolphins 4	Dolphins 5
Dolphins 6	Dolphins 7	Dolphins 8	Hoy Waves
Kirbuster Farm Museum	Kettle and peat fire	Peat heaven	View to a wet world
Glass corner	Old wall	Stromness main street	Stromness marina
Wind of Gare at Stromness	Stromness 1	Stromness 2	Stromness steps
Stromness 4	Stromness 5	Stromness 6	Stromness 7
Stromness crane	Stromness garden	Stromness 10	Stromness 11
Stromness 12	Stromness team	Stromness 14	Stromness 15
Stromness 17	Stones of Stenness	Stones of Stenness	Ring of Brodgar
Skara Brae	Skara Brae map	Skara Brae 3	Skara Brae 4
Skara Brae 5	Skara Brae 6	Skara Brae 7	Skara Brae 8
Early departure Stromness	Scapa Flow sunrise	Scapa Flow sunrise 2	Scapa Flow sunrise 3
Scapa Flow sunrise 4	Scapa Flow sunrise 5	Scapa Flow sunrise 6	Scapa Flow sunrise 7
Scapa Flow sunrise 8	Basking Shark, Airth Hope, Hoy	Lybster boat	Lybster harbour
Lybster stream	Lybster harbour 2	Lybster harbour 3	Lybster harbour 4
Lybster harbour 5	Lybster harbour 6	Tarbat Ness Lighthouse	Bonxie
Chanonry Lighthouse, Inverness	Kessock Bridge	Kessock Bridge 2	Caledonian Canal entrance, Inverness
Sea Lock, Clachnaharry, Caledonian Canal	Clachnaharry Sea Lock, Inverness, Caledonian Canal	Open rail bridge, Clachnaharry, Caledonian Canal	Tracks, Clachnaharry, Caledonian Canal
Seaport marina, Muirtown, Caledonian Canal	John with the bow line, Caledonian Canal	Towards Dongarroch, Caledonian Canal	Towards Dongarroch 2, Caledonian Canal
Dongarroch, Caledonian Canal	Dongarroch 2, Caledonian Canal	Loch Ness, Caledonian Canal	Nice house!, Caledonian Canal
Urquhart Castle, Caledonian Canal	Loch Ness 2, Caledonian Canal	Loch Ness 3, Caledonian Canal	Fort Augustus 1, Caledonian Canal
Fort Augustus 2, Caledonian Canal	Wind of Gare, Fort Augustus, Caledonian Canal	Sandy doing things that Sandy does!, Caledonian Canal	Fort Augustus view to Loch Ness, Caledonian Canal
Fort Augustus 6, Caledonian Canal	Gedania approaches, Fort Augustus, Caledonian Canal	Above Fort Augustus, Caledonian Canal	Old Salts, Gedania, Caledonian Canal
Reflections, Caledonian Canal	Trawler!, Caledonian Canal	Cullochy Locks, Caledonian Canal	Cullochy reflections, Caledonian Canal
Yacht Sewyt, Cullochy Locks, Caledonian Canal	Yacht Sewyt on Loch Oich, Caledonian Canal	Loch Oich, Caledonian Canal	Eilan Drynachan, Loch Oich, Caledonian Canal
Eilan Drynachan, Loch Oich, Caledonian Canal	Glengarry Castle Hotel and barge, Caledonian Canal	Loch Oich middle portion, Caledonian Canal	Low flying visitor, Caledonian Canal
Waiting at Laggan swing bridge, Caledonian Canal	canal to laggan locks, Caledonian Canal	canal to laggan locks 2, Caledonian Canal	canal to laggan locks 3, Caledonian Canal
canal to laggan locks 4, Caledonian Canal	Loch Ceann (after Laggan Locks), Caledonian Canal	Loch Lochy, Caledonian Canal	Yacht Sewyt, Loch Lochy, Caledonian Canal
Yacht Sewyt in company, Loch Lochy, Caledonian Canal	Yacht Sewyt Gair Lochy Locks, Caledonian Canal	Yacht Sewyt Gair Lochy Locks 2, Caledonian Canal	Gair Lochy swing bridge, Caledonian Canal
En route to Banavie, Caledonian Canal	Banavie top basin, Caledonian Canal	Top of Neptunes Staircase, Caledonian Canal	Block and tackle, Caledonian Canal
Block and tackle 2, Caledonian Canal	Boom, Caledonian Canal	Gedania, Caledonian Canal	Ben Nevis, Caledonian Canal
Neptunes Staircase, Caledonian Canal	Neptunes Staircase, Caledonian Canal	Gedania in Neptunes Staircase, Caledonian Canal	Last Lock at Neptunes Staircase, Caledonian Canal
Wind of Gare at Neptunes Staircase, Caledonian Canal	Leakage, Caledonian Canal	Banavie swing bridge, Caledonian Canal	Line to Mallaig, Caledonian Canal
Trawler on Corpach reach, Caledonian Canal	Corpach in view, Caledonian Canal	Corpach reach reflection, Caledonian Canal	Corpach Basin, Caledonian Canal
Wind of Gare reaches Corpach Basin, Caledonian Canal	Corpach sea lock, Caledonian Canal	Corpach sea lock, Caledonian Canal	Corpach, Caledonian Canal
Corpach sea lock opens, Caledonian Canal	Corpach sea lock 3, Caledonian Canal	Wave	Ben Nevis
Hill view	Corran lighthouse	Ballachulish Bridge and Glen Coe hills	Towards Glen Coe
Steve	Lettermore	Lettermore 2	Ballachulish Bridge
Loch Leven hills	Towards Glen Coe	Hill view	Hill view 2
Gannet in flight	Fishermans Cottage, Kilmalieu	Kilmalieu House	Wooden Yacht off Port Appin
Bow of the Nitrox	Oban harbour	Hebridean Princess	Kerrera
Bridge over the Atlantic	West Loch Tarbet chartlet, Jura	West Loch Tarbet chartlet, Jura	Cumhann Beagg, Jura
West Loch Tarbet, Jura	West Loch Tarbet, Jura	MacArthurs Lighthouse, Islay	Craighouse Bay, Jura
Jura Distillery, Craighouse, Jura	Paps of Jura	Water	Water 2
Water 3	Water 4	Water 5	Water 6
Stromness Going South	Duncabsby Hd to Chanory Narrows Course	Western Route Going North

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Robbie D70		08-Jun-2009 21:45
Great shots and fantastic adventure.

Steve Highfield		11-Nov-2007 23:30
Such a fascinating journey to some beautiful places, Steve. Well photographed. I'll leave the boat trip out because I don't have sea legs :-) +V

Ali Majdfar		20-Oct-2007 19:34
Spectacular collection, excellent shots. GMV

Jean Jones		22-Sep-2007 15:09
Wonderful pictures Steve, I'm going for the grey ones this time - Cape Wrath and the dreamy Kerrera! Jean

Doug Cruden		17-Sep-2007 21:01
Great gallery Steve of a wonderful part of the world; some terrific photos and from a unique PoV. Vote. :o)

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