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How do you get to Sydney?

(I said it was tricky!)

Go to Auckland and drive across the Sydney Habour Bridge.

Mark wrote:How do you get to Sydney?

(I said it was tricky!)

You can travel the same way to Bombay and Nairobi...

Mark wrote:

Mark wrote:How do you get to Sydney?

(I said it was tricky!)

You can travel the same way to Bombay and Nairobi...

...and Paris.

I won't flog this dead horse any more.

I thought it was tricky, but not impossible.

Anyway, it's

Easdale.

From there you can use the Easdale Ferry to begin a journey to all sorts of exotic places:

Mark wrote:Easdale

I like Easdale. I wonder if they'll ever put a marina in the old quarry there?

Maybe after they've done something about all the raw soil pipes running down from the houses at the top?
What are they going to be driving the extra long piles into I wonder.

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Which quarry?

There are already boats in the one at Ellenabeich and the one next to the Stone Skimming quarry (one each). The other quarries are all too exposed. There isn't room in the two sheletered quarries for a marina, but blocking off the sound and making a marina in there was mooted at one point. At the moment the Eilean Easdale 'development faction' are at a bit of a loose end though, having lost Mike Mackenzie to the Scottish parliament and facing increasingly negative publicity from the forces of 'keep it all the same'.

Stupid place for a marina IMO. Balvicar Bay would be another kettle of fish altogether though.

ubergeekian wrote:

Mark wrote:Easdale

I like Easdale. I wonder if they'll ever put a marina in the old quarry there?

I'd be horrifed if they did. It was lovely as it was.

Isn't Balvicar a bit shallow? I seem to remember depth alarm beeping all round the bay? Or was I lost?

It is shallow but I'd have thought that enough of it is deep enough for quite a large marina.

I would have thought that access to either Balvicar or Easdale would be awful by public transport. Even driving would be a bit of a slog. Its a good bit off the beaten track. I kept a previous boat there (Balvicar) many years ago.

Regards

Donald

Aja wrote:I would have thought that access to either Balvicar or Easdale would be awful by public transport. Even driving would be a bit of a slog. Its a good bit off the beaten track.

No more so than Craobh or Ardfern.

Nick wrote:

Aja wrote:I would have thought that access to either Balvicar or Easdale would be awful by public transport. Even driving would be a bit of a slog. Its a good bit off the beaten track.

No more so than Craobh or Ardfern.

Chichester to Croabh by public transport is, or was, over 24hours. We'd have needed to sleep in a bus stop in Lochgilphead IIRC.

I hate driving, but not that much.

Nick wrote:

Aja wrote:I would have thought that access to either Balvicar or Easdale would be awful by public transport. Even driving would be a bit of a slog. Its a good bit off the beaten track.

No more so than Craobh or Ardfern.

Really? Upgraded the road to motorway status recently? It might be a good place to keep a boat if (a) you lived nearby or (b) used the boat lightly or (c) like the kids being sick in the back of the car....

... Balvicar is a good 6 or so miles from the 'main' road to Oban. Last time I drove it it was all being dug up anyway and took about an hour to get to Ellenabeich.

Regards
Donald