The 16th dawned to be one of the few sunny, calm days in August. It was ideal for a trip to the Mull of Galloway.
Tony and I dropped a shuttle car at
Port Logan on the west coast of the Rhins of Galloway then met Phil and Maurice at the
East Tarbet. Inshore, the west going ebb starts at -1:30 HW Dover. HW Dover was at 13:10 so slack water was at 11:40 and we launched bang on time at 11:10.
The NE side of the Mull is a grassy slope and gives very little warning of the dramatic rock architecture beneath the lighthouse just 500m away on the other side of the peninsula.
The waters of Luce Bay to the NE were calm unlike a previous visit when we hit the Mull at maximum tidal flow!
We rounded the critical point at
Lagvag at slack water and entered the Lunnock Cave...
...for a celebratory exploration. If you do get caught out in the Mull of Galloway tide race, the
Lunnock Cave would make a marvellous place to wait for calmer conditions as the...
.
...vicious eddylines at its mouth kill the swell.
