Loch Sunart Holiday

We booked a week in a holiday cottage on the south shore of Loch Sunart.  This is an area of the west coast of Scotland we haven’t really explored before.  Years ago we drove through part of this area to catch the ferry to the Isle of Mull, but it warranted a longer stay, especially as it has one of the highest populations of otters!

Our cottage was called Camus na h-Airdhe, one of a few cottages owned by the Laudale Estate.  The cottage looks out on Loch Sunart and from our french door windows we saw a small pod of dolphins, an otter, a pine marten, lots of heron, a raven and lots of smaller birds…oh and some amazing rainbows.  We also saw some deer and lots of seals.

It rained most, if not all, days!  Unfortunately the west coast of Scotland does seem to get the tail ends of the hurricanes and storms that travel across from the Caribbean and Florida areas, thanks to the North Atlantic jet stream.  Even our supposedly waterproof Gore-Tex over-trousers and jackets couldn’t hold back the rain on one of the days, but we didn’t allow it to spoil our holiday and it made lighting the wood burning stove in the evenings even nicer.

Enough waffle, onto some pictures.

Our cottage is shown in the first picture, albeit a bit dark as the sun was going down.

 

A family picture at the Lighthouse which is on the most Westerly Point of Mainland UK!  I think we’d always thought Cornwall, on the southwest coast of England, would have the most westerly point, but nope it is in Scotland and here we are wrapped up and trying not to blow away!  (We now just have the most easterly point to do and we will have done them all.) The beach was one we stopped off at on the drive back and I couldn’t resist posting a photo of Ylva’s sandy nose!