Of whales and pirate ships....

Bit of a lag in blogging recently, will endeavour to right this soon. We are now in the small village of Whitehills after a very exciting day yesterday but not down to the sailing. Sadly there was a lack of wind yesterday on leaving Peterhead and any wind that did appear was from exactly where we wanted to head to, so it was a bit of a frustrating time trying to get around Rattray Head. However, once clear of Rattray Head we were able to bear away a touch, get some sails out and actually get sailing - for a change the wind even behaved and kept going further to the north to allow us to get into Whitehills. It’s a lovely wee village, which will definately have to be one of our stops when I sail ound britain with my very understanding husband! Anyhow the exciting bit of yesterday were the 4 broaching whale sightings - how very cool. Add this to our numerous dolphin sightings and large numbers of sea birds it’s been a great trip so far. Who knows what today will hold... Laters Karen

Hi, tis Emma blogging from Scarlet and currently sat in Whitehills which looks like a town out of a Tim Burton film (very cool). We’re getting ready for long trek all the way to Inverness and definately hoping to add to the long list of fun wildlife we have seen so far on this trip! So far there have been (lots of) Dolphins, some Puffins, many Jellyfish (in varying colours), a couple of seals and (possibly the coolest) a Whale!
An update of the happenings of our Pirate ship now... After a successful minor (and brief) invasion of Peterhead and the unfortunate loss of the Parrot we chose not to try to stage an occupation of the pontoon here in Whitecliffs but hoping to be able to take over in Inverness!
Will keep you posted!
Emma


The weather has been rough overnight and Cath has decided to go direct to Inverness. Yesterday we saw five whale sightings and it was brilliant. What a brillant time i am having, and i don’t want it to end, everyone on baord is great, especailly Kim as she adds abit of humour to the trip. Had a really brillant meal last night at the pub. Getting ready for a long day ahead as we are sailing direct to Inverness because of the weather, and can’t wait to see what in store.
Steve



what an experiance seeing a whale was, Me John and Kim heard a wierd crying noise and saw loads of seagulls attacking something black in the water but was distant tho.
John was like no its a dolphin but i told him its not a dolphin as they click and whistle to communicate to others i told him it was a whale sound but no one believed me at all then Kim all on her own saw a big black creature jump out of the sea and made a massive splash n told me n john then we saw it spurt out all its water n we all shouted its a whale its a whale then everyone turned over and there it was againg and again 4 fantastic time we saw the beautifull creature so now were on a 10 hour sail direct to inverness because if we stop over night in bucky we well be stuck there for the whole week as theye give very strong gales coming in but i will defo keep u guys all informed if we see plenty more of william the whale cya folks.

Ben Murphy ;-)
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