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Monday, 18 September 2023

Troon Town

Troon is a beach resort town in south Ayrshire, probably best known for its many golf courses, the most famous being Royal Troon.

Up until the 1980s Troon was a shipbuilding town with the famous Ailsa ship building company dating back to the 1880s

Troon has the main fish market in south west Scotland, the harbour theses days is mainly used for the transportation of timber around the Firth of Clyde
 

Sunday, 17 September 2023

Puffin Island










 Puffin Island tug and Abeko Server 1 a backhoe dredger at Keppel Pier, they are preparing to start work on Milports £27 million flood prevention scheme.


Saturday, 16 September 2023

Toward point Lighthouse






 Toward Point Lighthouse is on the southern extremity of the Cowal Peninsula, near the village of Toward, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. There has been a lighthouse here since 1812.


Toward Point Lighthouse was completed in 1812. It was built by Robert Stevenson (1772–1850) for the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust. Two lighthouse keepers' houses were added in the later 1800s. A white building on the foreshore housed the foghorn mechanism, originally a steam engine and then diesel engines. The foghorn was taken out of operation in the 1990s.  The keeper's cottages were sold in 2012 and are now a private home.


Information from Wikipedia

SOUND OF SCARBA











The Western ferry Sound of Scarba arriving at Gourock

Brodick Castle


 Brodick castle is a National Trust property on the isle of Arran, the present castle dates back to 1844.

A bus from the ferry terminal stops at the castle, the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the castle is an A listed building.

Friday, 15 September 2023

MV Eigg



 MV Eigg was a car ferry built for Caledonian MacBrayne in 1974.

She ran the Oban to Lismore route from 1976 until 2013.

Clyde Sunset


 Looking down river from Dumbarton to the Tail of the Bank.