To and fro

Nearly eight in the evening now and we are alongside at Oban for a
couple of hours before doing the late night run back out to Craignure,
presumably with the evenings revellers who have been living it up in
the sin bins of old Oban town. We will then spend the night alongside
in Mull before returning at 06:45, which means a 5:30 start for me.

The weather went downhill today with a South Westerly 6 to 7 when we
were on our way to Colonsay but the vessel seems to take it in it's
stride, not that this will have been the first time that this
particular ship has experienced bad weather in her 23 years of running
around this part of the world. We took eight vehicles and and about
10 passengers out to Colonsay and returned with even less. Looking at
the little settlement that is at the pier head there doesn't appear to
be a lot there, maybe just over the hill there is more.

The regular mates on here dislike the long 2 and a half hour run down,
can't be doing with all this sea time, they much prefer the 45 minutes
back and forward from Oban. I have started to supervise the loading
of the vehicles, finding it quite tricky with so many factors to take
into consideration.

Anyway that's the first 48 hours over, I seemed to have survived, wish
me luck for the weekend.