Oct 25th Western Gailes selfie

Out for an afternoon walk along the golf course and stopped for a drink at this water font. Took a photo and got a selfie image on the shiny handle to turn the water on, surprised.

Selfie Western Gailes

Aug 30th Sea

I posted recently about a tee name in South Uist but locally this name is not special because of its name but because of the quality of the golf hole. A shortish par 3 on Western Gailes, that is all carry and should be straightforward. But deep bunkers protect the hole and when the wind blows, which is all the time, tough, tough, tough. One of my all time favourite golf holes.

Hole 7 Sea Western Gailes GC

Aug 21st Blue is the colour

Back home and I was walking the golf course this morning. A bit of heat and brief glimpses of sunshine has brought out the butterflies. I think that this one is a 'Holly Blue'. Small about the size of a thumbnail and a quite a few of them about. Very pretty and brightened up my morning.

Holly Blue butterfly

Jun 22nd There are worse places to live

There are plenty of times I curse living on the coast in the West of Scotland with the constant wind. However there are plenty of other times when I reflect on how lucky I am. Today, with the empty sands, a lovely golf course and some blue up there it is the latter.

Irvine Bay