Dateline June 2000
June 29th
The weather continues fine and clear, and the Laurinburg group go to Crinan, where they find out something about the earliest links between Argyll and North Carolina, dating back to the early 1700s. Two Swedish yachts, on passage back to Sweden from the Caribbean are pleasantly surprised to find some willing helpers to manhandle the lock gates and sluice as they make their way through the canal.
June 28th.
The flag of North Carolina flies above Oban Town Hall, in honour of the visitors ffrom Laurinburg, who spend the day gettin to know Oban High School.
the June 27th.
A group of students arrived for the annual exchange between Oban, Argyll and the twin town of Laurinburg, North Carolina. The weather holds - fine and warm and clear.
June 25th.
Ten members of Oban Rotary club undertake a sponsored climb of a range of peaks in the Momres, just north of Kinlochleven. Four make it to three peaks, another two to two, and the rest manage a single peak. The day is as parfect a day for the mountains as one could ever expect - warm enough to climb in shirtslleves but cool enough not to overheat, and the visibility is perfect.
Also superb flying weather for the Air Show at Oban Airport.!
June 21st.
The longest day of the year. Overcast but mainly dry, Not a particularly spectacular day, but not particularly bad either. Mediocre. Like much of June's weather this year.
June 19th.
Not very great weather for June. In places the roads carve their way through green tunnels. Buttercups flood the fields with bright yellow splashes, and the dawn chorus is as vocal as ever. The swans on the local loch have disappeared. Nobody has seen them for a couple of weeks. No sign of swans or cygnets - could it be a raid by mink?