Still Waters

Two yachts pass Ardmore Light on their way south down the Sound of Mull. This is the sort of very still weather we've been having the last few days, with low cloud, mist across the water, and an occasional thin drizzle.

Then, suddenly, the sun comes out and the Sound opens before us, its mirror surface patterned by an aimless breeze.

This fishermen has been active at the Kilchoan jetty working on his boat in preparation for the brief salmon season....

...while another takes advantage of the calm to lay creels beyond the perch at the entrance to the bay.

The mackerel have yet to appear in any numbers, and there's been little sign of the bait fish which draw them in, but some fine pollock, up to three pounds in weight, have been caught off the point below Coilum.