It is impossible. Well, perhaps not impossible. But it is difficult to go down to Bute and not make the effort to see the wreck of the Co-Worker on the beach at Ettrick Bay. Not to go would be like going to Bute and not visiting St Blane's. There would be a nagging emptiness that would gnaw at you as you drove off the ferry at either Colintraive or Wemyss Bay. There would be an almost irrisistible urge to do an about turn to complete the pilgrimage - the only thing that would stop you would be the thought of having to buy another expensive ferry ticket. Needless to say, Liam doesn't share this sentiment. Well, at least as far as St Blane's is concerned. Ettrick Bay he doesn't mind so much; it's just boring, but at least it has a cafe and you can drive right to it, and there is not much walking involved in reaching the wreck, and what walking there is is not uphill. St Blane's is another matter altogether, however, because getting from the carpark to the chapel involves walking uphill through a field for all of about 500 metres (but, he says, it's all uphill, and all there is to see is an old building with no roof, some old walls and a couple of gravestones). Earlier in the day I picked up a copy of the local newspaper, The Buteman, and came across a little story telling my fellow Brandanes that our very own Zak had won a prize for one of his pictures of the Co-Worker. Well done, Zak!