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Subject: Re: [OM] Parker 51, was Adventures in Cell Phones
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:37:37 -0400
Lochdubh, or some such. Can't recall exact spelling. Lock-doo, I  
think, is how it is pronounced. Once I read which village in  
Sutherland (?) was the model, but I've forgotten. Way up to hell and  
gone on the northwest coast. Your images bring to mind what I had  
imagined. Got to put it on my bucket list. Good job!

--Bob Whitmire
www.bwp33.com




On Oct 11, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

> I can't remember where Hamish McBeth was based, Bob, sorry.
>
> But where we were was pretty blowy on one day, up to 73kts reported at
> Stornoway, not many miles west of us across the sea.  So the lochs had
> white horses:
>
> http://gallery.me.com/zuiko#100085/_9083255&bgcolor=black
>
> And although Loch Inver is a sheltered sea loch the wind was whistling
> up from the open sea at our cabin; this is it on a calm day:
>
> http://gallery.me.com/zuiko#100085/_9113302&bgcolor=black
>
> And the view across Loch Inver to part of Lochinver, with Suilven and
> Canisp cloud-capped behind:
>
> http://gallery.me.com/zuiko#100085/_9113301&bgcolor=black
>
> It's probably a little more isolated than where you live, but just as
> beautiful.

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