Jessie Taylor was born in Hamilton Terrace and has lived her whole life in Lamlash looking out at Holy Isle but she had not been there since the early 1940s.
Little did she know that all that would change at the sprightly age of 94 – and in a way she could never have imagined. Three of her neighbours are members of the Arran Coastal Rowing Club (ACRC) and she often enjoyed watching them practicing on the bay and asked about how their training was going.
One day Caroline McGinlay asked her if she would like to go out in the skiff and be rowed over to Holy Isle.