Today 20 oak, 20 rowan and 20 birch (all locally sourced) got planted at Traighuaine. We did use some plastic protectors due to the number of red deer in the area. It’s 14 years since we planted 50 oak saplings here and they are all doing very nicely even though the deer chewed a few.
Sally and Simon left Scotland in 2015 on board Shimshal to begin a slow circumnavigation taking in various high latitude destinations. After 3 seasons in Greenland we sailed south to Lewisporte in northern Newfoundland. In 2019 we cruised the Canadian Maritimes. In 2022 & 23 we cruised via New England, Chesapeake, Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Providencia to Bocas del Toro. In late 2023 we transited the Panama Canal in readiness of a Pacific crossing in 2024.