Old Sugar Warehouse Sheds at the James Watt Dock, Greenock

'Open Doors' day in Greenock afforded the opportunity to view this fine building.

A-listed building built between 1882 and 1886 - designed by Walter Kinipple, the Sugar Warehouse was constructed in four red-brick sections with arches and pilasters in yellow brick.

The Old Sugar Warehouse undergoes essential repair work

This iconic building is being made wind and watertight at a cost of approx 3.7M

A view of the roof

The cast iron columns are  shown in this image

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HMS Bounty in Greenock, Inverclyde

HMS Bounty is visiting Greenock for a few days.

A wonderful day weather wise for this time of year.

HMS Bounty at Custom House Quay

Visitors on deck

HMS Bounty - famous for the maritime mutiny that took place over 200 years ago. Thousands visit her duringport visits to see what life was like in that era.

She is well known from her modern movies roles. Built in 1960 at a cost of £750,000.

In 1960, it was Marlon Brando playing Fletcher Christian in 'Mutiny on the Bounty' and more recently  it was Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man's Chest'.

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Scottish Deer Park

Feeling that my visit to Leuchars was not too productive, and having driven all that way, I stopped off at the Scottish Deer Park.

Well worth the visit in my opinion.

Locking Antlers

One of the two otters. Hopefully they will breed and become established in the park

A nice doe-full creature

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Leuchars Arrivals

Took a run over to Leuchars to try and catch today's arrival.

Photography is not too easy as difficult to get close to the base.

Vulcan and Typhoon Approach Leuchars

 

 Mig on Display

 

 Vulcan on final approach to Leuchars

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Late Afternoon at the Greenock Esplanade

Nice warmish evening (18 Degrees) and the Celebrity Constellation was  due to leave at 16:00 though a slight delay meant she was about 15 - 20 minutes late.

Celebrity Constellation Pulls away from the Greenock Ocean Terminal

Velazquez and Celebrity Constellation Pass on the River Clyde

RLNB Annette Hutton - Passing Greenock Esplanade  

Velaquez Arriving at Greenock Ocean Terminal

 Also met up with a few friends for a blether on the Esplanade

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Sunny Evening in Greenock

A fine sunny afternoon saw me pop in to Custom House Quay on my way home - just in time to catch the SD Salmaid pass.

 

SD Salmiad makes her way to the 'Great Harbour' from Faslane

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Buckie Harbour

After the storm here in Buckie this morning - check out the colour of the water in the harbour. 

A month's rain fell in one day, causing extensive flooding and damage across Moray.

 

Trawler in Harbour

  

Buckie Harbour Office

 

Drums & Nets on the 'Transcend'

We headed home today, taking various detours along the way aas roads were closed due to flooding.

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Lossiemouth

A turn over to RAF Lossiemouth again today, and this time we had some activity

Tornado comes in to land

 

Disused Pier - Lossiemouth

Wonderful sandy beach at Lossiemouth

Ideal subject for Black & White image

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Moray Coast

Elgin for lunch, then down to RAF Lossiemouth - no activity.

Popped over to Burghead

Fishing Nets on the Quay

Then a run over to Fochabers where we stopped on the coast road

The road to the Tughouse at Spey Bay

We carried on through Port Gordon on the way home to see if the seals would be basking on the rocks.

Seal at Port Gordon

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Evening Time in Bucke

Having been to Elgin today, I had a stroll around the harbour at Buckie when I came back.

 

Hoxa Lass

Buckie Hut at Harbour

View over the Harbour

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Strathspey Heritage Railway - Boat of Garten

Making our way to Buckie for a week's break, and popped in to Boat of Garten for a coffee break

Fortunate enough that a steam train arrived at the station while we were there.

Steam train arrives at Boat of Garten Station

Steam train departs Boat of Garten Station

View of the Station on a quiet Sunday afternoon

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Collectormania - 'Night is Day' - at Braehead, Glasgow

I went to the Collectormania event at the Braehead Arena today.

Primarily to take a few shots of my son Fraser's promotional table for his Sci-Fi series 'Night is Day'

I also managed a few of some of the actors and actresses who were guesting at the event.

Everyone was very amenable and engaging, and were pleased to facilitate me taking a few photographs, and these can be viewed at - dougie-coull-photography.co.uk/People/Collectormania-Guests

Included are Peter Davison, Amber Benson, Natalia Tena, Mary Tamm, Hattie Hayridge, Sophie Aldred, Spiderman, and others

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Another Wet Day in Greenock

Another wet day in the town

 

This image shows Clyde Marine Services new tug - CMS Buster - with Battler and Bruiser

 A view across the Victoria Harbour - Dumbarton is visible on the other side of the river

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Celtic Endeavour

Another miserable day from a weather perspective

Celtic Endeavour - Passes Port Glasgow Light on her way upriver to Glasgow

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CMS Buster - New Tug

Clyde Marine Services new tug - CMS Buster - arrived on the Clyde today

Weather was very poor. She was towing a barge to Glasgow and was joined by the Battler on her journey from Greenock

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Warmish & Sunny Day around Greenock

A walk around the harbours in Greenock today as it was pleasant & sunny day

A rather dilapidated old US Navy vessel left over from the 'Holy Loch' days

Purchased I believe by a Port Glasgow man with intentions to profit from river use
Sadly it appears to be just slowly rotting away and abandoned

Here we have the SD Impetus - Serco Denholm tug - towing the Sullage Lighter 1710 (U)

A new tug to the Clyde - Svitzer Anglegarth

We look forward to seeing her at work

SD Spaniel - another Serco Denholm tug in the James Watt Dock, Greenock

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Wet Day (again) in Greenock

Feels as if it's rained forever - forecast is better for tomorrow - thank goodness

Alba Venturer arrives back to Victoria Harbour, Greenock

Clyde Clipper - Greenock towers in the background

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Waverley - Passing Newark

A brighter day today - thank goodness - as we've experience a good few days of very heavy rain

PS Waverley passes Newark, Port Glasgow bound for Glasgow

Close up of the Paddle Box

A seagull enjoys the sunshine between showers

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Wet & Miserable Evening Around the Clyde

Went down the Greenock Esplanade to grab some photos of the cruise ship leaving

The rain could only be described as torrential

This photo shows the 'C Columbus' as she passed Greenock on her way to Kirkwall

Further down at the Cloch Lighthouse the pilot cutter 'Mount Stuart' was making heavy weather of the conditions
....... and this is our summer remember

This photo was of the flowers around the lighthouse - still dripping from the rain shower

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