just come back from a few days away in Dumfries and Galloway.
Took Kermit along in the hope that we might get a bit of hovering in.
We stayed at Garlieston which has a slipway.
Here I am thinking it will be like the one on the caravan park on Loch Fyne.
This thing is really long, and steep is not the word.
The tide goes up and down by 7 metres.......7 metres, I couldn’t believe it.
Which just goes to show how little I know.......
Anyway, everyday day I went round and looked at this slipway. Tide in looks scary but doable.
Tide out it looks bloody terrifying.
When the tide is out there is a bit of a drop off then a channel of river water then a hump onto the mud.
I kept thinking about this. But there were thunder storms forecast every day, and they came ....boy did it rain.
There is a old slip onto the beach further along but it’s badly overgrown and very deeply rutted at the beach end.
I was quite concerned, due to my lack of experience diving off this slip......so we found a beach about 1/2: 3/4 of an hour along the coast.
Thursday was by far the best day Wind and weather wise. So with John’s words ringing in my ears “ pick your day, and you’ll be fine”
We launched and had a couple of local trips.
That Solway Firth looks a big....BIG place from a little hovercraft.