At long last we arrived at our camp spot on the
Ardlamont peninsula. We had travelled for 12 hours since we had left Gigha which lies off the exposed Atlantic west coast of Scotland. We now found ourselves deep within the Firth of Clyde, some 80km from the Mull of Kintyre at the mouth of the Firth.
We looked out over the Sound of Bute to low lying Inchmarnock and Arran. Between them, the distant south Ayrshire coast was out of sight below the horizon. Only the summits of the Galloway hills were just visible some 90km away to the SE.
The beach was backed by a raised beach of cobbles, a legacy of a rising landmass after the retreat of the Ice Age.
The raised beach provided an ideal base to set up camp. From my tent door I spotted...
...this otter diving for crabs. We could quite clearly hear it crunching the shells. The only building visible on our entire horizon was the
small white unoccupied cottage on the Arran shore at
Laggan. Unfortunately we would not find ourselves alone for long, this evening...
