How Many "R's" Are in Kerrera Ferry?

As the hill forecast was still too bad our guide picked a walk on the island Kerrera instead which was in the end a wonderful choice! Only one short shower and a mix of (a lot of) sun and clouds.

The small ferry operates just south of Oban. In two batches we were shipped over and started our walk along the coast to Gylen Castle - a McDougall ruin. I've got a bit of luck when it comes to islands thinking of my travels to Valentia Island, Dursey Island and recently Skye.

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The ruin of castle Gylen

Saw some amazing basalt formations which looked like man made walls and some more conglomerate and rock that was lifted after the ice age. We actually learned how and why this happened. Quite interesting. I scrambled up one or two of these. Couldn't resist.

How could I resist scrambling up here, huh?

Pressed rock elevated after the ice age

Had a nice pick nick in the sun around 1pm and after 13 kilometres we were back at the ferry and spent the better part of an hour in Oban at a hotel pub with a pint. Only two or three of us could be bothered to walk around the town, haha.

In the evening the owner of the house and estate came over for a very interesting chat about the house and it's history as well as the estate's history and what actually belongs to it. Turned out it's 6000 acres large spread over a thin strip along Loch Etive. The farm with it's highland cattle belongs to it as well as the mussels farm and a few more bits. Learned about breeding highland cattle and growing mussels which was a nice topic just before dinner.
Enjoyed the food again although there wasn't much for me in it as it was based around potatoes and pasta. Ate everything else and was stuffed by the end. Nice. Had a wee dram afterwards and went to bed quite early again around 5am.