Inverewe Gardens

Spring Fever was anchored for two nights in Camas Glas, a little bay with landing steps for visitors to Inverewe Gardens. It’s an astonishing place, with many plants that if you didn’t see them, you’d never believe would thrive in the far north-west of Scotland. Photos are the best way to tell this story.
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Cruising down the West Coast – Kinlochbervie, Lochinver, Loch Ewe

We’ve done our main delivery trip: after passing Cape Wrath, Spring Fever is now cruising among the lochs and islands of the west of Scotland on the way down to Oban, which will be the boat’s home for a year.

There are hundreds of anchorages and dozens of harbours, with shelter from any given wind direction always in reasonably easy reach. We’re no longer trying to maximise the sea miles every day and are looking instead at a less strenuous 30 to 50 miles a day.

Early morning, Kinlochbervie, the fishing port just south of Cape Wrath, where we stayed two nights
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