July 31 - Invergordon, Scotland
We are in the Scottish Highlands and oil is a big thing here - along with whisky, but more on that later. By the way, whiskey, spelled with the "e", is the Irish way of doing it. We've sailed past the oil rigs at work in the ocean, but now we've sailed past them here getting repaired or maintained. On the left, you can see something suspended from the crane above. There are people in there being hoisted onto the platform. The UK is committed to using only clean energy by 2050. If that actually happens, these will be a thing of the past. I believe our guide said that they already have enough solar and wind power (at full capacity) to power Scotland. Invergordon is the port for Inverness and Loch Ness, but we have visited them both before, so we elected to do a different tour this time. The photos taken from a moving bus aren't great, but they give an idea of the beautiful countryside of the Highlands Here are some of "The Fields of Barley" that Stin...