The wild west

Today we woke to grey skies and more fog. We had a dilemma. Our plan had been to spend the night in Tobermory then head to Loch Moidart tomorrow. But the forecast for Friday was looking rather more windy than we wanted so we decided to seize the moment of calm and head for Ardnamurchan Point - the most westerly point on mainland Britain. After a brief stop in Tobermory to pick up supplies off we went. Despite a forecast of 4-5 there was no wind at all, just oily flat sea. A perfect day for spotting whales I told Graham. Ten seconds later we spotted two basking sharks each about 6 or 7 metres in length. The biggest fish you'll find in our waters.

We took the engine out of gear and bobbed around with them for a while until they gracefully moved on. A short while later Graham saw some bottlenose dolphins in the bow wave of another boat. They came over to check us out. There were four in total but sadly they didn't stick around. Later we saw a whale, probably a minke, but it was in the distance. Hopefully we'll see more wildlife like that in the next few weeks.




We are now anchored in Arisaig where we plan to spend a couple of days. My parents are heading up to meet us tomorrow and we'll spend a few days exploring together. Graham is cooking up a curry which smells delicious and I'm going to sign off and open a bottle of red. Salut!


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