gorfram says:
This photo was taken on the Isle of Mingulay, as famed in "the Mingulay Boat Song" -
"Heel ye ho, boys; let her go, boys;
Bring her head round, into the weather.
Hill you ho, boys, let her go, boys;
Sailing homeward, to Mingulay."
(....must stop before I get too Auld-Lang-Syne-ey, or I'll wind up wrapping myself in tartan and disappearing into the cover of a shortbread tin. :)
gorfram says:
Not only is this a great photo (killer composition, lighting to die for), but the little boat moored out in the middle of Loch Carron (that'd be "Lake Rowan" in sassenach-speak) is a "lymphad," the Hebridean Scots adaptation of the Viking longboat.
These were the boats that the medieval Lords Of The Isles used to get around and enforce their power as they, well, Lorded it over The Isles.
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