Steamship trip on Loch Katrine
...aka more boring pic spam.
Last weekend, on the May Bank Holiday Saturday, my parents and I did the tourist thing and took a trip on the old steamship 'Sir Walter Scott' on Loch Katrine in the Trosshachs. With flat grey skies and a mist in the atmosphere it wasn't the best of days for boat trips, sightseeing or photography, but at least for once the rain stayed off. There was a fair breeze blowing and out on the water it was fucking freezing; luckily there was a bar onboard and my mother and I headed down into the cabin for hot chocolates, while my father (pennypinching old nipscrat) stubbornly continued to shiver on deck because he couldn't thole the £1.40 for a hot drink.
The old screw steamship 'Sir Walter Scott' at Trossachs Pier at the east end of Loch Katrine.
Ben Venue on the southern side of Loch Katrine.
Anyway, these pics (and far too many more like them) can be seen in my LJ gallery. And by the way this is also pretty much what all of upland Scotland north of the Highland boundary fault looks like, except that further north the mountains are higher and the landscape is bleaker, with fewer trees.
Last weekend, on the May Bank Holiday Saturday, my parents and I did the tourist thing and took a trip on the old steamship 'Sir Walter Scott' on Loch Katrine in the Trosshachs. With flat grey skies and a mist in the atmosphere it wasn't the best of days for boat trips, sightseeing or photography, but at least for once the rain stayed off. There was a fair breeze blowing and out on the water it was fucking freezing; luckily there was a bar onboard and my mother and I headed down into the cabin for hot chocolates, while my father (pennypinching old nipscrat) stubbornly continued to shiver on deck because he couldn't thole the £1.40 for a hot drink.
The old screw steamship 'Sir Walter Scott' at Trossachs Pier at the east end of Loch Katrine.
Ben Venue on the southern side of Loch Katrine.
Anyway, these pics (and far too many more like them) can be seen in my LJ gallery. And by the way this is also pretty much what all of upland Scotland north of the Highland boundary fault looks like, except that further north the mountains are higher and the landscape is bleaker, with fewer trees.