A little more Ballycastle...

One evening we were treated to an unusual sight. Casually glancing across to the Ballycastle fuel berth astern of us we had a double take moment. It was a "dry" night so the view wasn't influenced by any intake of alcohol (shame). No Photoshop use was involved in this image either, honestly:



























Goats trying to find food on the quay wall isn't a normal daily event in our world. Ballycastle clearly has some dumb goats in its population though - this couple could not read the sign asking for the fuel berth to be kept clear. They did try a bid for freedom but were a little restrained as someone had tied them up to the fuel pump. Interesting move:

Finally we watched them get bodily lifted into the cockpit of a small boat which then took them across to Rathlin Island. It was bumpy out there and the trip takes a while and we are not sure if goats have sea-legs. Wonder how the crew got on cleaning up the boat after they arrived...

A very enjoyable day was spent in Ballymena. Returning that afternoon, the heavens really opened, luckily as we were on the bus (all alone again). Getting off at the seafront in Ballycastle, a full rainbow greeted us - both ends visible. We only had the mobile phone with us and so you only get to see a blurry image of one end, sorry:

This is, of course, meant to bring good luck (seeing both ends of the rainbow, not having a mobile phone or luck would be very busy) so we will let you know what transpires.


Maintenance news

The pesky navigation PC that had been playing strange games producing a series of random errors, has suddenly started behaving itself. Since the trip to Tobermory, it has worked flawlessly for some reason. Sometimes you don't like to look a gift horse in the mouth but we fear that this particular horse is powered by Microsoft and so will bite us again sometime, no matter how well we feed it...

By the way, the PC got mysteriously better before the rainbow appeared by the way. Hence we still await our good luck.