Mull o' Galloway!

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soo... if ya seen the purple kilt pic ya ken Emma an ai went tae her granfaither's 80th BD pairty...

it was in Stranraer... the next dee we went tae the Mull o' Galloway... Scotland's maist southernly point...

the wind wuz blooing a gail... but it wuz still a very guid day...

oan the way there we stopped off a'

Sandhead...

here is me an the twa dugs a' Sandhead...

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just befair arrivin' a' the Mull ai saw this greet wee bay...

the yellow flooers are Gorse bushes....

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an here is the wee stane cottage in the bay...

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here is Emma, ai, Ceilidh, an Usgie

a' the Mull o' Galloway Lichthoose...

ya can see how hard the wind was blooin'!

an it wuz a caul wind tae!

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jus fair location ...

here is a map o the area....

there are 5 different tides thot a' meet at the Mull...

the sea here is very dangerous...

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an this is fraim inside the lichthoose....

please ignair my grimace... it was also very foggy but very bricht...

so visability wuz doon to less than 7 miles... but ai needed my sunglasses...

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fraim the lichthoose-

lookin oot a' the Irish Sea...

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fraim the lichthoose...

here ya can see the Irish Sea oan the left

and Luce Bay (part o' the Solway Firth) oan the richt...

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an here is oor award fair makin the climb oop...

[M. A. C. Newsome]

My wife and I took our honeymoon to Scotland around this time of year, and I remember all the lovely yellow gorse in bloom across the west coast.

If I remember right, some folks call in "whin," correct?

I recall a lady on the Isle of Ulva telling us, "When the yellow's on the whin, the kissing season's in!"