I went just last month over and there were dolphins in the bay. Right in the bay.
Sandra:
In Tobermory Bay.
Interviewer:
Oh wow.
Rosie:
In Tobermory Bay. Beautiful, just jumping about.
Sandra:
Did you get photo?
Rosie:
Oh no, they weren't-- they weren't good 'cause as soon as they came up they went back down again. But there was a whole host of, um, photographers that had been sitting there and we were like "what are they looking for?" and then all of a sudden they heard this-- this splash and then everyone was like "wahey."
Sandra:
Wow. Wow. And they'll be chasing the boats as well. They play-- they swim alongside the boats. But Mull--
Rosie:
Yeah. 'Cause their little motor boat went out and then they were like--
Sandra:
Mull must be one of the-- the most filmed of the-- the islands near Oban because of the otters, because of the white tailed sea eagle.
Rosie:
Yeah, there's actually-- um, there's actually signs on the road that, like "beware otters crossing", like, instead of-- not even, like, children crossing but it's otters.
Sandra:
School crossing.
Rosie:
Yeah.
Sandra:
Otters crossing the road, well that's lovely.
Rosie:
But that-- my Papa, he-- that happened to him, he got stopped-- he had to stop for otters to cross the road.
Sandra:
A family?
Rosie:
A wee family, yeah.
Sandra:
Wow.
Interviewer:
Amazing.
Rosie:
Which is nice.
Interviewer:
So you've got quite rich wildlife then?
Sandra:
Yes.
Rosie:
Yeah.
Sandra:
Yeah, lots of-- and the basking sharks.
Rosie:
And deers.
Sandra:
Lots of deer.
Rosie:
"Deers", oh God, deer. I can't believe I said that.
Interviewer:
"Deers."
Sandra:
Otters crossing the road, well that's lovely.
Rosie:
"Deers"-- didn't mean that, I meant deer.
Sandra:
The deers.
Rosie:
The deers.
Older speakers
Jackie:
I would say the other-- the-- eh, the other good thing that-- eh, up at the-- um, is the swimming pool.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Jackie:
I mean, when I grew up we, eh, didn't have a swimming pool, we swam in the sea.
Interviewer:
Yes.
Jackie:
Mhm.
Kenny:
That's right
Jackie:
At Ganavan, in the sea, jumping off the-- off the slip
Kenny:
Aye,
Jackie:
and then--
Kenny:
sometimes involuntary.
Jackie:
I know, I-- that's how I learned to swim, getting pushed in.
Kenny:
Get-- get-- thrown in, yeah, you know.
Jackie:
But um, you know, and then when-- like, your mum and dad were-- were, um,
Kenny:
Mhm.
Jackie:
eh, growing up they got the pool and they learned to swim in the swimming pool.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Kenny:
Mhm.
Jackie:
So that was alien to us, we'd never had one. You know.
Kenny:
Do you-- do you remember old [name]?
Jackie:
Mhm.
Kenny:
Eh, you know, she was-- she had Labradors and she-- that was her walk, past where the swiming pool-- And it was under construction at the time and they'd dug out the trenches for the foundations and she came-- said to-- "by Jove, they're fairly getting on with that, eh, swimming pool" and I says "aye, aye they're getting on, oh, fine." She says "they've got the lanes in already."
