Last week I saw a sea eagle fighting off a buzzard, and a sea otter eating a fish. I stared at a seal, and it stared back defiantly before flipping and disappearing below the surface with a showy splash. I got in the way of a puffin delivering sand eels to its pufflings, and swam through forests of kelp. I stayed up late drinking whisky and putting the world to rights. And it was all in the name of work.
I swapped my office for a sea kayak, and four days on the seas off the island of Mull, in » Continue Reading.