Blog Entries from Marc Calhoun
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Last Update: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 01:03
More delays. We ran out of beer, so the guide went on strike until we returned to Oban to stock up. Once the bar was replenished we head over to Oronsay. The sea is calm, so a landing on the...
The following review of Beehive Dwellings of the Hebrides appeared in the Stornoway Gazette. The review was written by Frank Rennie, who has allowed me to reproduce it here. The book can be purchased...
Leaving Gigha in our wake I set a course west to Islay. Under rainy skies we pass Port Ellen, where the smell from the giant maltings and whisky warehouses is sublime. I anchor just west of Port...
More delays. Sorry about that. The guide had to go home for a couple of weeks to prepare a video presentation on his book about the Beehive Cells of the Hebrides. It will be shown at the Faclan Book...
After leaving Ailsa Craig we motored over to Campbelltown. The guide had claimed he was a close personal friend of Paul McCartney. So I called his bluff by telling him to take the guests up to visit...
We were delayed getting away from Holy Island for a few weeks. Just before we were to sail, the guide jumped ship. He'd been enchanted by the beautiful Buddhist Warden on Holy Isle, and decided to...
I have to interrupt our cruise for a commercial announcement. After long last—25 years of journeys, and 10 years of writing—my book on the beehive cells of the Hebrides is available from Acair.See...
From our anchorage off Brodick it is a five mile cruise to Lamlash, where we board the inflatable to head for the dock on Holy Island. Thomas Pennant, writing in the 1770s, had this to say of Holy...
We leave Bute in our wake to set a course to the south. After an hour of motoring the hook is dropped in Brodick Bay. (Fortunately, the chain is attached). We go ashore, where the guide is anxious to...
I nosed Hjalmar Bjorge into the sea-lock of the Crinan Canal yesterday, and they wouldn't open up. I went ashore and was told the ship looked too big for the canal. The maximum length allowed is 88...
