"NuttyBiker" from Aberdeen, with a fetching Pearl Necklace!

Some rallies have miss wet T-shirt competitions or strippers, this rally has the "Miss Island Invasion" competition, which accounted for the the dubiously cross dressed visions which wandered the site on Saturday, and Rothesay too, to the bemusement of the locals.

The entrants seemed to approach the challenge with vigour and imagination, from the Hyacinth Bucket impressionists to the Soho pole dancers, in some cases nothing was left to the imagination!, eek.

These great sports provided endless laughs on Saturday night with thier antics on the dance floor, from the befrocked bloke headbanging to AC/DC to begin the proceedings to the blokes who, not having quite got the hang of dress etiquette were wandering with the backs of thier dress tucked in thier pants. according to my source, apparently a great fear amongst women, that is thier own dresses in thier pants, not the blokes.

The spectacle defies description so just look at the photos.

Walter's best chat up line cut no cheese with the entry from Spinal Tap
My missus says there's a law about stripes with spots

Being a Bank Holiday, albeit an english one, the rally was going on until monday, by sunday night there was still a few hundred folk left for the celeidh, gawd, cannae spell that either.

The battle re-enacment in the afternoon turned outto be for the kids, ha ha, loads of women waiting for the site of hairy blokes running about in plaids with big swords, still the we'uns seemed to be having a good time knocking seven shades of shit out of wooden red-coats.

The crowd were slightly more subdued in the evening, three nights hard partyin' takes a lot of energy, but the shambolic "strip the willow" was still carried out with enthusiasm.

Yer Knickers, Yer Knickers!
Confronted with such visions, some folk plainly couldn't control their primal urges ;-)

According to Ian from the Islanders there were about 640 folk who signed in with loads more who didn't. Looked like about 800 or more folk. Not surprising this rally's so popular.

Thanks to the Islanders MCC for all their hard effort, great party, I'll be doing it all again next year.

Haw, z'ma lippy awright?
Marv spent all his money on beer and had to make alternative arrangements to get home
Tam from the Mutineers gets a cuddle off my missus, his wife is expecting, the day after the Mutineers rally, good luck ;-)
Davey from the islanders and me, some miguided fellow thought we were separated at birth, I can't see it ;-) maybe it's the red noses
Words & Pics by Al