Thread: Preservation inlet

Originally Posted by XR500

Got flown in by Bill Black in the late 1990's. Armed with a rubber duck, 15hp obm and 150L of gas. Plus three history books of the place. It was amazing to see the picture the artist made of James Cook's Resolution moored to a big tree bough to prepare for observing the Transit of Venus, then jump in the rubber duck, go around the corner and see the tree in the inlet...just as in the painting!!!

The area oozes history. Cromarty township had a school, stores, pubs, everything.

We saw the tramway with wooden rails, the horizontal brick chimney running up a ridge, and the old boilers fired to run the pumps to drain the mines that went under the seabed. FFS !!

Years of sweat and toil , taken back by nature.

B