A birding holiday lead by Chris Gomershall on the Isle of Coll 3-11June 2002. Photos were scanned from slides or prints and are poor quality but are a record. The second holiday is below
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 Oban sea front. After a nine hour drive from home |
 A Small Trawler |
 The Fish market |
 We stayed in an excellent B&B before taking the Calmac ferry to Coll |
 Cal-Mac Ferry "Clansman"
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 Chip Thief |
 Coll Orthogneiss (rocks) |
 Mull Castle on the shore |
 The Isle of Coll |
 The Post Office and Shop, Coll |
 "First Port of Call" Tea Room and B&B |
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The Golf Course |
Arinagour High Street |
Coll Habour, the Kirk is on the skyline |
Fulmar nest |
 Hebridean Centre at Ballyhaugh where we stayed |
Long view of Training Centre and ruins |
 A Dike |
 Croft House |
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MV Faithful awaiting repair having hit an undersea pinnacle. |
Eroded Dune |
Backlit sheep |
Restored "Black Houses" |
 Loch Breachacha |
 Feall Cliffs |
 Feall Bay |
 Sheep skull |
 Oyster catcher |
 Cliad Bay |
 My baby |
 Soaring Fulmar |
 The "Teller of Tales" |
 Evening Cliad Bay |
 Eider Duck |
 Feall Cliffs |
 Intrusion Hogh Bay |
Waves |
Crossapol Bay |
Evening View west |
 Beach Photography |
Green Algae |
 Common Seal |
 The Macha |
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The white house |
A Ruined Croft |
Evening at Scorisdale |
Feall Bay |
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Rock Formation |
Feall Cliff |
Volcanic Dike |
Hogh Bay
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 King cups |
 Stream and Flag Iris |
 Pebbles |
 Banana time |
 Evening Bousel |
 Thift |
 Fulmars |
 Stone built Croft |
 Our Group |
 Rock "Waves" |
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 Stream on the beach Cliad Bay |
 Setting off for Lunga |
 Lunga. The low rocks act as a jetty |
 Fulmar Nest
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 Puffin |
 Disaster: Camera dropped! |
 Lunga |
 Shags |
 Puffin Watching on Lunga |
 Puffin |
 Female Eider Duck |
 Greylag Goose |
 Lunga Bluebells |
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 What? |
 Dike wall and Thrift |
 Fire One! |
 Outhouse |
 Towards Saffa |
 Towards Skye |
 Towards Skye |
 Patterns |
 Rock patterns |
 Evening Bousel |
 Crossapol |
 Two Herdwick Sheep |
 Sea Grass |
 Cow plus Erratic Boulder, We saw lots of birds but I failed to get reasonable photos! |
 Cows plus calf |
| Our visit to the Isle of Coll, 2nd to 12th April 2005 We stayed in the Coll Hotel. Four seasons in one day and a lot of rain | |||
 Duart Castle on our way |
 The New Jetty Coll |
 The Village |
 Wind blown |
 The Coll Hotel |
 Through the Kirk Window |
The old and new Castles |
A volcanic Dyke |
 View From our Hotel Window |
 Daffodils and a Rainbow |
Old Croft home |
 The White House |
 Camel? |
 Coloured Pebbles |
 Crossing the stream
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 Highland Bull |
 Amazing rock patterns |
 Port na Luing |
 Dunes |
 Strata |
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 Waves |
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 Seals basking |
 Where we stayed |
 Hotel Garden |
 View from Bedroom |
 Hotel Bar |
 Old and new castles |
 Boulder |
 Daffodils |
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 Lobster Pots |
 Lobster Pot buoys |
 Scorisdale towards Skye |
 Feall Bay and ben Feall |
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 Ruin |
 Lobster Boat |
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 Post Office |
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