What a fantastic weekend! Lots of time spent in the boat, sharing fantastic experiences in the sunshine with lovely people. First up: Fiona and Ewan came out with us to watch the Ullapool Coastal Rowing Club regatta skiff racing... Absolutely delighted Ullapool Harbour's new concrete ramp, which (combined with Mada Chuain's drop down bow) makes rolling even this quite heavy mechanical chair aboard a really smooth and easy process.

Pics from a big 112kg rubbish haul this week, taking in various wee marine litter sinks along the Western shoreline of Horse Island. Plenty more to gather in from that stretch, but we know exactly where to head now, and we will definitely be back with more people and a whole load of extra bags for that degrading polystyrene! Over a few hours, we brought in masses of buoys, a few pretty large items (which presented some quite interesting challenges) the ubiquitous lone welly, a drinking fountain bottle, a sad wee flip flop and a fair bit of other stuff.... We're always really grateful to Ullapool Harbour Trust for their unstinting support of this work - but their extra help and patience weighing the big items and relocating the massive octagon to Quercus (to be repurposed into play equipment) was especially appreciated this time!

Great to finally get some proper summer weather yesterday and a chance to run a couple more accessible boat trips! This time some of our younger sea savers took out family members that don't often get the chance to spend time out and about on the loch: Sophie's great granny Nona, and Hunter's Nana Shan. Some interesting life in the creels, a wee wave to the departing cruise ship and a chance to see the village from a different perspective - and in the sunshine!

Multiple layers of legal protection exist for the resident dolphin population.

Big thanks to the lovey people at Port Edgar Marina for taking them.

When we're out exploring and beach cleaning, we often find fishing buoys that we try and return to the owner if it has a name or number we can track. WillCopestakeMedia from Kayak Summer Isles was out with the kids last week and brought us a buoy to see if we could find the owner. .