***Final Edition*** – Remember to pack your bags tonight!
Station Times
50 years of Lochearnhead Edition 24th August 2012 - Issue 13
Sinking the Titanic Weather The West Highlands Light wind; occasional rain, cloud mostly confined to higher tops.
How Windy? Direction likely to vary, but mostly southerly; mostly less than 10mph.
How Wet? Pockets of light rain lasting an hour or two, but near and west of Loch Linnhe, the rain may be persistent for several hours.
Cloud on the hills? Many summits substantially free of cloud by late morning, but where rain sets in, so cloud will form, widely above 600m, and fragments to very low level.
Sunshine - Air clarity? Very little sunshine due to high level cloud. Visibility generally very good, although foggy on some hills, locally to low level.
Sailing was meant to be safe and a fun day, without the risk of sinking boats, but not today with William steering the boat he named the titanic. Like the original titanic, being called unsinkable means it will, when it came to turning our faithful boat around to return to the side, we got caught on some rocks in shallow water that caused the boat to list heavily to one side, jack tried to hold on to one of the rocks to prevent the boat from capsizing. Jack had to let go in order to save himself from being pulled into the icy water, wolfie came to the rescue in the powerboat but after one attempt to right our boat he gave up and drove off, leaving us to capsize into the water. Thankfully we were only a few meters from the beach, so we walked back to the jetty. The session ended with all of us being allowed to run and jump into the loch from the jetty.
A wee dip in the loch – Editorial Correction, Yesterdays issue Team Derrick, Dan and Rosie decided that staying dry wasn’t for them...After missing a ball – and nearly crashing into a boat – they finally forgot about their nice warm dry clothes. Having got the boat back up the right way they ventured out again only to decide that one swim wasn’t sufficient so off they went again, dereks hat was the only casualty. Apart from the wet clothes!
Teamwork in action (Olympic points please) Saviours of the day rescued numerous stranded animals ... a dragonfly, a moth and a pretty young owl that was stuck in the reeds. Working as a team to find and rescue the poor creatures.
How Cold? o
6 C (at 900m) o 14 C (at Station)
The teamwork escalated and continued when an idea was brought about, the crafty theft of Hunt’s kayak as he was otherwise engaged – departing. The genius, yet criminal, mindsets of Hawkins and Goodwin thought up the blueprints then Hart and Budd proceeded to put it into action. They towed Hunt’s kayak away from the shore. The rest of patrol A joined together to form a four man, five kayak raft. After Hunt’s begging, pleading and weeping the kayak was returned via yet another excellent example of teamwork from the BEST PATROL!
Jamie just chilling at climbing.
Whilst out on the water, the good man M. Hart pointed out the cavernous sky surrounding us, in tune with the amazing acoustic trees and mountains meant that any loud noises would create a long and eerie echo. We spent a few minutes experimenting as a team with words before we decided the best word to shout was ‘JAAAAAAAAANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET’. Kayak thieving, animal saving and tutu & tie wearing... all in a day’s work for patrol A. NOTE: NO HUNT’S WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS ARTICLE... AND NO SPAM WAS THROWN EITHER.