We cross the treacherous North Channel from Campbeltown to Glenarm, and are lucky enough to get a calm crossing. ----- About us ----- We have begun a liveabo...

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ah was well acquainted to picture house

this is all I can show your campbelltown

because I'm afraid to say I'm on a

mission and I'm afraid sure it's to

cross to Ireland

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we were crossing the North Channel from

Scotland to Northern Ireland a notorious

stretch of water but thankfully for once

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so what's today's dinner Gator X chicken

and 600 miles back in the land of saints

and scholars we mirrored up in Glenarm

marina

are you dying over there is salty lass

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the next morning we were welcomed by

band the 12th of July as Marchant and

Northern Ireland and the band rocked a

big event somewhere well somebody hasn't

crawled out of her bunk yet and it's

it's lunchtime and today's lunch will

involve some leftover tricks and slices

and some bread that's it and lunch is

ready

well gainers lunch ah trust me it's not

gonna last long

trust me on this I'm not gonna last long

but Bev insisted that I got changed more

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it seemed to have the fears to ourselves

apart from the Guillemots

who were busy flying underwater I

thought they were choosing fish but they

seemed to be kissing each other

we walked around and finds a nice place

for a hot drink and it had a lovely view

of Glenarm Bay as well all right you've

made the points

is a great idea to keep little beaches

clean

luckily the beach is clean otherwise I'd

be out there this is one of great arms

line kills bucking the dailies to mine

limestone here crush it and sends it

over to Glasgow for the steel industry

and shipbuilding to help reduce the iron

down to steel you can't see much here

and I don't think the camera will catch

much but it goes back one heck of a

distance far more than the camera can

see well this appears to be part of the

old line works which shut down years ago

and principally what it seems to have

been used for recently is the

traditional Northern Ireland 11th of

July bond flag in England they have Guy

Fawkes night in November where they have

huge bonfires and set fire to an effigy

of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up

Parliament in the 1600s here they put

different effigies on top pan burn those

but this is the remains of the bonfire

obviously and you can tell us remains of

the bonfire because all this wire

belongs tires and it's traditional to

burn tires in the fire to make a black

smoke no everything's be as some

desolation of the old line work so the

bubbliest have tamed it and I'm sure

later in the year it'll be covered in

butterflies and bumblebees and above the

marina there's these poor devils who

were ripped off found scrupulous yacht

dealers who sold them the bottom part

where you live and eat asleep and left

off the top part where the masts and

sails go absolute disgrace

premiered a bit of a mistake we misread

the conditions for the passage south and

what started as not too bad passage in

the North channel just simply got

rougher and roll here so we ducked into

larne lough where the East Antrim book

club guided us on to one of their

meetings thanks guys this is long we

came in because the sea state was a

little bit but I have to say people here

at Larne are just gorgeous I have to say

I think this is the thing only been in

Northern Ireland a couple of nights so

far and Glenarm

we pay for one night and you get a

second night free here we've managed to

pick this moring up and they've allowed

to have it give it us for free we're

then gonna go to Carrickfergus they're

gonna give us a night and then second

one free so at least in Northern Ireland

there's some deals to be made there was

a couple of moorings at ten pounds so

there was there was one at mill port

that was ten and lum lash was ten so

there are a couple of ten pounds

moorings which aren't too bad but other

than that there's just no deals

whatsoever to be made you know

so money-wise the only deal we heard

about was we're in open you got seven

nights for the price of six that was the

only deal that we heard about all the

rest was nothing whereas over here like

I say we've already had one night free

this is another night and we're having

it free so

he deals to be made if in Ireland in

Northern Ireland don't know about so

itself but in here Northern Ireland

deals to be made

the downside of our location was at the

ferries run all night long and they

caused a bit of a rock-and-roll

experience for too tired yachties I'm

actually I normally do it that way don't

I when Beverly and I are on a mooring we

sleep in the main cabin because you're

closer to the center of gravity of the

salty laughs but when you've got roll of

about 10 degrees numb watch the videos

are

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