I slept well .. but actually J was up surveying at various times during the night. Had the weather been different ( worse) I imagine we may have had to leave. Swinging room limited and dubious bottom on which the anchor is attached 🤔 anyway, got away with it and left in glorious morning sunshine. We put the mainsail up but no wind at all! Once out into Loch Linnhe the early morning mist closed around us. Couldn’t see a thing. Although it was obvious that it would burn off with the promised sun, it’s still really eerie and disconcerting. Feels as if you’re going round in circleS. We put the radar screen on the plotter which was really helpful and reassuring. After seeing a fishing boat appear out of the mist, it started to lift quickly and the sun shone. Our first destination was an anchorage for breakfast… on the island of En Balnagowan in the middle of Loch Linnhe. What a place! One other boat at anchor in the little bay, and a red rowing boat. Seabirds and there chatter all around …..soo many… so noisy. Seals basking on the rocks 50 yards away, wondering what we were up to. We had bacon and egg sandwiches and just sat, and appreciated it all. For a couple of hours.
Then eventually Made our way by motor to our destination of Kentallen. My aim was to be there by about 1530 as we’d booked a table at the hotel at 1630. It was the only time they had free but doesn’t bother us. It’s one of the great things about our life on the boat…… it doesn’t matter when…. we just have one main meal a day, not important when. We arrived at Kentallen to a backdrop of the mountains behind. Ben Nevis and the mountains of glencoe are always of course magnificent, but it’s not often you can actually see them! We hooked up to a mooring buoy off the quay from the holly tree hotel where we’d booked our meal! So excited! The wind was still a bit brisk but we were not far from the little pontoon so we rowed across. I had a fantastic fish and chips! J had something else. What a spectacular setting. A meal to remember, and a lovely hotel if anyone needs somewhere to stay up these parts.
What I learned today… not for the first time, sitting and watching wildlife is the best.
Angelique 