Summer is here, the yachts have started arriving in numbers and Jim, my pal from N Ireland has been on the phone. Where’s the Blog? There has not been one since early April!!! Well here we are, the midgies are bad outside (our other summer visitor), there is stuff to do inside as I head off on an adventure tomorrow but to-day I will try to get up to date with the blog.

I am not sure how many yachts we have had to date, we have been away for a few breaks but I am sure that we are up to around the thirty mark. Some early sailors like Yacht Eshe have caught the calm sunny days (and a few gales too).

The moorings were full last night with MV Aphros from Ireland a regular visitor coming in late. Rob only comes to buy our venison burgers, but for sure they love the quiet anchorage and the large Tamnavuillin in the Bothy (Celebrating the Scottish cup win by Celtic!!!!!!).

We took a chance to check our fleet of creels (all three of them) at Dhu Chamas at 5pm, fishing for an hour catching nothing but a few tugs and losing the obligatory lures and weights. But the sun was shining and the water calm, the new boat getting another run out.

The scenerey as always was stunning with a mist over Trotternish and lovely shafts of light over Lealt as we headed home.

I had a swim in the late afternoon, the water decidedly warmer than it has been for a while, no seals swimming with me just out round Yacht Eshe and back, very refreshing.

And so it goes on MV Aphros left reasonably early followed by Yacht Eshe then the other boats I am sure will not be long behind them. As I speak another yacht (a wee one) has just come into the bay, maybe it will be a bumper season.

More looking back over the past few weeks, coming very soon.