Wake to a nice sunny morning, 16 degrees and no wind. Invergordon is a small town with pretty houses and oil rigs moored in the estuary. It won’t take long to walk around the town so we delay getting off the ship until after lunch. This port is mainly for people wanting to go to Loch Ness, and castles and scenes from outlander or to go into Inverness. Ann was interested in going to Culloden moor, but the ships excursion only provided a photo stop and the private tours were too extensive going to many other sites and expensive. To go to Inverness was a 50 minute train or bus ride each way so we decided against it and will just have a relaxing day and amble around the town.
We walk into town around 1.30. It is quite warm when the sun comes out - 20 degrees. It is small town and it does not take long for us to walk up and down the Main Street. Invergordon is known for its murals painted on the sides of buildings. We see most of them and then head back to the ship, there is really not much else to see.
As we set sail we are farewelled by a lone piper, next port is Lerwick in the Shetland islands. As we sail out of Cromarty firth there are a number of oil rigs moored in the firth. These are disused rigs awaiting to be demolished and or rejuvenated, if production of oil picks up in the north sea.
The captain reports that sunset is 9.40 pm and sunrise will be at 4 am. Getting more daylight as we continue towards the arctic circle. The captain also warned us that the temperature tomorrow is expected to be 13 and it could be windy. If the wind is above 20 to 25 kmph we may be unable to launch the tenders!
As we head up the North Sea there are numerous oil rigs and a few wind turbines.
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