Galleon!!

 I had to go into Ayr for a teeth fitting yesterday..trying the wax model before it gets sent off (for three weeks) to make the real thing. It sat on a 3D model of my mouth done by laser, not the awful gunk in the mouth!!

So I took advantage of the time and place ...and went to see a ship...a replica of Christopher Columbus' galleon....

Ayr Harbour, Calmac ferryboat on the right

from today you can pay to have a guided tour

she is on the berth that the "Waverley" paddle steamer uses

look at the red writing..the latitude and longitude of the wartime lookout station

I think that this was at one time a dry dock? Until last year there was an old fishing boat here as a memorial to Ayr's history..but nit being maintained after its previous restoration it was scrapped

This is a memorial to the coal trade linking Glenbuck at the source of the river with the port. This has coal on it. Another at the site of the village has sand on it. The village, home to the Shankleys and many other football families is no more but you can visit and read the history.

Arran is over there

and this is the usual Scottish view of anything astronomically interesting.....

However the air pressure did change, it went quiet and subdued and cooler....that was the eclipse here.