Caledonian MacBrayne (Cal-Mac)

~ ~ Caledonian MacBrayne are a Scottish ferry company that transport passengers and vehicles from mainland Scotland to all the outlying islands off the Scottish Atlantic seaboard. I have been a customer of this company for over forty years, ever since I was just a wee slip of a lad in the 1950’s, as I have family on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. ~ ~ In those distant days the ferries were not drive on/off as they are today, and cars had to be quite literally winched from the pier by cradle, and onto the open deck of the ship. Stabilisers to keep the vessel from wallowing around like a drunken whale in bad weather were practically ...