The wind is blowing, the rain looks almost like sleet, the house is not warm, there is snow forecast on Ben Nevis and the high hills, if it clears I must have a look over to Torridon. It is the Summer!!!!!

Looking back at the last month (briefly) as usual there is a lot going on. Yachts visitors are far from plentiful and numbers visiting are almost half of last year and no surprise.

At least it was calm enough for quite a few boat trips and there were some decent days last month.

There has been good fishing though with the odd lobster and quite a few Pollock.

Unexpected visitors turned up.

The local pair of Sea Eagles have succesfully reared two chicks (so far) this year on Eilean Tighe. High profile birds that enjoy the freebie fish thrown out by the day trip boats, so when we go out fishing within minutes the sea Eagles arrive circling the boat. Our Danish visitors were thrilled that on each occasion we went out fishing the eagles came and fed on the small fish they had just caught. Whether that is good or bad I guess makes no difference as the eagles pick up the by catch from the fishing boats, so feeding them like this may make them lazy and abandoned by day trip boats in winter (although the Sea Eagles will move closer to Portree to feed) there are still fishing boats throwing out by-catch all year round.

Back from dropping our Danish visitors in Edinburgh a few more yachts were coming promising more but the weather turned nasty and here we are with winter. Our first calf for us rocked up at the house about two weeks ago and since then the mother and calf are regular visitors.

Last week was Defib week, Lucky2b here came out on Monday to give us all training on the new Defib’, now installed hopefully giving a peace of mind.

More soon.