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David has lived on
the Island for the last Thirty years and first visited it
in1962
when his family holidayed on the island of Erraid as a guest
of the owner at that time, this led to them renting a cottage
there
for the next 8 years and started David's love for the the wildlife
in the area and seas surrounding it.
David moved here in
1973 and worked as the local postman for 1 year before starting
as a salmon fisherman working out of Camas and later Uisgean,
during this time he obtained a licence to drive articulated
Lorries
and also a small fishing boat which he then worked for a few
years before going to work full time driving Lorries for the
local Sawmill,
mainly fetching logs out of the forest which gave him lots of
opportunity to watch the wildlife, until it burnt down in 1989.
Since then he has
worked at various jobs: working on and setting up some of
the mussel farms in the area, before joining Bowmans, the local
bus company, in1996 leaving them in August 2003 to start Mull
and
Iona
Taxi,
having realised there was a need for this service on the Ross
of Mull.
Janna first visited
and fell in love with Iona in 1974 while a student in Edinburgh.
Much later, after 10 years of living and working in Hamburg
(Germany), she returned to Scotland in 1988, initially to Erraid,
and after a year spent working all over Scotland she took a
job on Iona for the season, switched to Mull half way through
and has lived here ever since. Mull grows on you!
David and Janna met
in Fionnphort in 1989 and married the following year. They
set up home on David's croft and took over the Isle of Mull
Angora Rabbit Farm and visitor attraction in 1993. Unfortunately
they were unable to find someone to take it over in 2001 when
they decided the time had come to move on.
Janna helps out driving
the minibus - as well as Balamory tours she specialises in
tours in the German language. She also runs a small market
garden providing fresh vegetables for the local shops and restaurants
as well as private customers, ably supervised by the two dogs,
young Puck from Coll, who is mainly Springer Spaniel and Tab
- an old Lab/Collie cross who came through the local animal
rescue as her owner had died.
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