Loving where we live 💙 and also loving having these long summer evenings to get out and enjoy it! and also loving having these long summer evenings to get out and enjoy it!

Loving where we live 💙 and also loving having these long summer evenings to get out and enjoy it! and also loving having these long summer evenings to get out and enjoy it!

Delighted to have got Jenny Scobie out for a wee trip out on the loch in this incredible weather enjoying the sunshine, views and chat from aboard Mada Chuain... ☀️👌 It is amazing to be able to use the PionerMulti's special accessibility features get folk out on the water who wouldn't normally get that opportunity and the new marina at Ullapool Harbour is making a huge difference to our ability to do just that. Very, very grateful for all the hard work that made these incredible new facilities a reality! 😀👏

Great weather for our all-access boat trips yesterday meant we got a couple runs out. The first was crewed by Jamie and Hunter, who showed Maymie and Kate some of their favourite things to do out round the loch - lifting creels, sea eagle spotting, driving the boat, checking Seawilding Ailsa 's native oysters. Maymie and Kate even got a wee spin. Hoping this weather carries on as we'll be trying to get more people out to see the loch and what we're up to.

We took a look at a beach on Tanera Beag on Saturday that has long been a source of major concern for the amount of marine plastics gathering there. We gathered and bagged a lot with Cal Major - Ocean Advocate back in 2021 when she was doing her epic paddle round Scotland - you can see more on that here (episode 2): https://player.stv.tv/sum.../reelsoul-scotland-ocean-nation/ Conclusion: it's still pretty horrendous and steadily getting worse, sadly. We gathered in the stuff that can readily be put back into use and prioritised binging in the stuff for disposal (thanks Ullapool Harbour Trust!) that looks to be breaking down into microplastics quickest (polystyrene etc)... Hoping to get back out for a bigger clean asap.

beautiful, still evening combined with spring high tide made it possible to get access to a net that's been wedged into the rocks under the old White Tailed Sea Eagle nest site for a while, as well as a few other bits and pieces from along that incredible stretch of coastline. 🌅 Sometimes we do have to wait and pick our moment to get to spots like this, but it is always worth it and we're always keen to hear about other problem spots around the MPA - please let us know if there's any that you've spotted and would like to see cleared.