At 00.30 hours I picked up my mooring in Ullapool bay. ![]() From there it was a couple of hours back to the mooring in what was a shifty breeze. All the shore gear was stored away and with the anchor retrieved and I set sail for Ullapool. Heading away from Tanera Mor in evening glowīack aboard, a big pasta, smoked sausage and sauce mix was devoured. Trade Winds sits in Sron na Moil Mor bay Looking south to Stac Mhic Aonghais and Glas-Leac Beag in distance ![]() The dinghy was rapidly deployed and I rowed to the boat at a pace to escape the little pests. With no wind or breeze it was not the conditions to hang around the shore line. I was also conscious that the midges were out and intent on making a meal of me. The trip back down the steep slope was a stumble-jog-walk affair until I emerged back at the boulder bay. For the sixth time that day I was picking my way through deep grass and heather and stroking the soft bog cotton with the palm of my hand. Video, pictures and a big inhalation of the view done, I turned and picked my way back down the steep slopes back to Mol Mor bay. Looking north to Achiltibuie, Isle Ristol top left Faithful old rucksack makes to top of Tanera Mor Fish Cages looking North across Badentarbat Bay Loch Broom, Horse Island and narrows towards Ullapool The sun was now lowering in the west so it was not possible to see the Hebrides against the evening glare. An incredible vista lay out to the west and the wide open Minch. Loch Broom lay to the east with Rhue lighthouse just visible in the soft evening light. Achiltibuie lay to the north and beyond Sulivan and the layers of slate grey mountains. The top opened up with uninterrupted views out the the Hebrides that seemed to go on for ever.īelow and to the north west lay The Anchorage with its circular fish cages. The last few meters of height to the flat top were scrambling on all fours and climbing boulders and nipping up heather gullies. The scramble up was ‘route one.’ That took me up a slope over a fence then straight up steep craggy slopes and rock. It was now 8pm and my visit to the island would be an ‘up and down’ trip to the top. I paddled ashore and pulled the dinghy up a few feet as it was a falling tide. Heading in towards Sron na Moil Mor bay Trade Winds safe and sound Paddling ashore The bay is open to the south so is only advisable when seas and winds are calm or from the north. The Mol Mor beach is made up of boulders, rounded and smoothed by wave and tide. From there a grass bank rose into the heart of the island. Sheer cliffs rose up on either side and ahead lay a slopping beach. I motored Trade Winds into the southwest facing bay Mol Mor. Tanera Mor was to be my last island of a six-island day. This, because much of the soil for the area came from Ireland as ships ballast. – green knoll) in the middle of The Anchorage bay is referred to as the Irish Park. The salted herrings were exported around the world. In its heydays in the late 1800s the bay accommodated over 200 herring drifters and a fish factory built by the London based British Fishing Society. Tanera Mor was a favourite anchorage for the Vikings who used in the main north shore bay The Anchorage. ![]() The island is mostly covered by grassland pastures, heather and peatlands. Like other islands in the area its made of 2.5 billion year old Torridon sandstone. Peaking at 119 in the 1880s to last census in 2001 of 5. The island is privately owned and has like many Scottish islands had a population decline. Tanera Mor is the largest and tallest of the Summer Isles at 310 hectares and Meall Mor standing at 122m.
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