The Harbour, Portsoy

The action end of a modern trawler…
The Friendly Isle departs Macduff Harbour
Don’t jump!!!
If you look carefully, you can see, on the horizon, the mountains on the other side of the Moray Firth – and the odd boat! Read about Portsoy here.
It’s all very quiet at Macduff Harbour today…
Katy learns that time and tide waits for no man (or dog).
Another bad symmetry attack I’m afraid…
I’m trying to break my seriously bad monochrome habit!
One of my favourite work boats…
Question: Can we trust the British Government?
Answer: Absolutely not.
The Shekhina, sitting on the bottom at MacDuff Harbour leans over in the early morning sunshine.
We thought the Voe Jarl had left for foreign shores but, here she is, back in MacDuff again
Very important to keep chains tightly wrapped around your bollards…
This interesting little boat came into MacDuff Harbour this morning…
Or, as we used to say in the days when merchant ships carried Radio Officers – QTP MacDuff (in Morse code of course).
Katy’s favourite balls, wonderfully coloured and they whistle as they fly through the air.
…and a bit of sanity returns to this blog (for the moment at least)
Flaming Pair plus polar distortion (Photoshop) plus symmetry. Lockdown madness or perhaps the product of an idle mind…
Symmetry plus Flaming Pear plus Photoshop!
The bigger the better!
High and dry……
The Conservative Party – a bunch of lying crooks…
You can beat a spot of insertion…
It’s good to keep your hole well-lubricated.
All quiet and peaceful at MacDuff…
Clapped out. Beyond Repair. Surplus to Requirements. Time expired. Of no use. Ready to be scrapped. Broken. Good for nothing. Completely fucked!
It makes a change from a bowl of fruit, surely?
At this stage, I think this double 13 Amp socket might be classified as slightly dangerous (sorry Americans, our mains electricity sockets are very different to yours).
I have no idea what it is but it has seen better days (a bit like me really!)
(AKA a port hole)
In case you are wondering, these ‘wheels’ stop a fishing boat’s trawl net getting caught on rocks on the sea bed.
Now a nice home for insects and, unfortunately for the insects, a feeding station for woodpeckers…
The Ex-Tree – Richard Broom Photography
Water from the stream always tastes better…
Rotten to the core and completely stumped…
Snow in May? Who would have believed it?
Another symmetry attack…
My earlier post gets the treatment!
Cranes, these days, controlled from a radio-control box. Clever stuff!
Don’t forget to lubricate your parts…
Just fooling around with symmetry as my night-shift at the harbour is coming to an end. I’ll be resting in the arms of Morpheus for a few hours this afternoon.
It’s my hole and I’ll dig if I want to!
…a bit of fun with symmetry.
Well, you do have to admit….
It must be Spring in the UK..
Probably the best time to visit the beach. When the tide is out, all is revealed!
Again, this seaweed probably has a proper name…but it looks like spinach to me!
It probably has a proper name but it looks like tagliatelle to me!
Colorful if you’re in the US! Rocks in the bottom of rock pools here in Banff, Scotland. Wonderful colours and plenty of sea snails hiding between the rocks.
It looks like the surface of the moon but I think (but don’t know) that these little critters who live on the rocks down on the beach are barnacles. Somebody will, I’m sure, correct me if I am wrong.
I have a 100mm lens that I hardly ever use but I took it for a spin on the beach today and took photographs in the rock pools when the tide was out. And so, get ready for the rock pool and dog series!
A great home for spiders…