Invergordon

Welcome to Invergordon, one of the coldest places in the UK if not the plant at the moment (according to Scottish TV colder than the Antarctic, something I can agree with as I was in my shorts in the Antarctic this time last year).

On Thursday I travelled up here to join my new boat the Kestrel. Despite being up at 5am to get the first flight from Humberside to Aberdeen at 7am I didn't arrive at the ship till 5pm. By ten past eight in the morning I was in Aberdeen I then spent the next three hours arranging transport to Inverness. The snow and ice on the roads meant the bus journey to Inverness took nearly five and a half hours. A short 20 minute drive saw me eventually arrive.

Essential travel only was the advice, I guess work can be deemed essential.

Dam.

(The picture above was taken at twilight this evening and shows one rig in the yard at Invergordon.)