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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KenM" data-source="post: 3214101" data-attributes="member: 57880">Great account Rich...keep it coming. Went to Handa once some 40 odd years ago! (Christ was it that long ago :eek!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I can remember the two ladies that ''smartly'' positioned themselves just behind the prow of a ''glorified wooden rowing boat'',with my fiancé and I languishing at the rear, positioned just in front of the ''Captain'' (son of the local lobsterman, looked about 12 years old!), and powering a 0.5 dp (donkey power) outboard, heading West from the jetty into a ''lively on-shore wind''. It was an experience that I shall not forget, suffice to say...the two ladies got drenched! and unfortunately we witnessed (almost in the boat) a Bonxie butchering an immature Kittiwake!..also getting a lifetimes best ever views of Arctic Skua....ah yes!..I can still taste the spray now. :t:</blockquote>