Invasion!

But of the friendly sort. 3 Russian naval vessels are to be seen anchored off Ayr and giving the crew a little shore leave. They are here for the Varyag commemorations, including the free open-air Russian/Scottish concert to be held in Stair Park, Girvan on Saturday 8 September between 1400 hrs and 1700 hrs. Unfortunately I'm otherwise occupied or I'd be there taking photos!

RNLI

This picture is of the Girvan lifeboat at her moorings. She's a 12 metre Mersey Class boat, the Silvia Burrell, with a range of 140 naultical miles and a top speed of 17 knots.



The UK lifeboat service is run by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, staffed mainly by volunteers and reliant on charity for funding - is this a peculiarly British tradition?

I urge you to use the link and visit their site - there can't be many of us who haven't been in some situation where we might have need their help - and see what they do and how they do it. You never know, you might just feel like donating something!

Girvan Harbour

I took this photograph yesterday. Girvan is still a working fishing port, albeit with a massively reduced number of fishing vessels now berthed there. The white you see on the hull of the Silver Viking is not scrapes, but the reflection of the sun off the wavelets in the harbour.

Girvan in the sunshine is a lovely little town - in the rain .........