It is that time of year to catch up and start preparing for the season ahead. This year we have two new residents on Rona who are sharing the load and slowly taking over the tasks that myself and Lorraine have carried out over the last couple of decades. At 68 years old now I am getting just a little tired and don’t have the energy I used to have, so it is time to slow down. I am looking forward to it.

But as I slow down I look back on some of the projects that we have been involved in over these last 22 years. I am sure there will still be more to get involved in before we leave Rona (which will not be for a while we hope) but it will be good to take it a bit easier.

Putting this post together and subsequent “Looking Back” posts, is quite scary to see how far we have come. Enjoy.

The Mission House (Formerly known as Seascape and Skyescape)

I came to Rona in 2022, April. The job was to put up a fence round this property. I was a self employed forestry contractor at the time and was glad on the work. It seemed quite an adventure and most surely became one. Little did I know I would stay on and still be there 22 years on.

The job morphed into coming back a few weeks later to help the builders and after that I went home packed up and took up residence in the Lodge.

My first job after the fence was laying floors, building a kitchen and then the decking. But prior to me coming to Rona there had been a lot of work carried out by the ferry man at that time delivering the material. The fishfarm guys from Dhu Chamas with their boats delivering bigger items. Here is that period.

Since putting this post together I have come across a lot of other ‘first year photos’ , so when time allows I will post the next chapter on the Dry Harbour cottages.