Ti Gitu anchored off
Portmahomack for three days. It was the start of a magical week. First
Portmahomack is a lovely place with friendly people and then we moved on to
Balintor.
Balintor is an undiscovered
harbour. I found the harbour as I was looking at http://www.ports.org.uk/ This is an amazing web site which lists many
of the harbours around the UK
even down to where there is just a jetty. Looking at this I discovered Balintor
and tried to look it up in both Reeds and the cruising association books. It is
not listed.
It is a drying harbour and Ti
Gitu went alongside the wall and dried out on level sand.
Balintor is the centre of
three old fishing villages which have all expanded to form one large community
now. The people were incredibly kind to us and many said that they couldn’t
remember when the last boat visited the harbour.
Everyone there is incredibly
proud of the history, quite rightly so. Before the harbour was built the fishing
boats were launched off the beach and to allow the men to go to sea for the day
reasonably dry the women folk would carry the man out from the beach to the
floating boat on her back before going home to get dry herself.
After three perfect days we
decided to move on to Cromarty and despite it being Friday 13th we
had a gentle motor from Balintor to Cromarty catching several large cod and
watching the dolphins.
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