Monday 25 May 2015

Lismore

The last tour on Friday with the group was a walk on Lismore taking in the coast of the northern half of the island if you will. We took the ferry from Port Appin and started our walk up North, then walked around the the tip all along the coast passing a little village before we eventually arrived at another Clan McDougall castle ruin - Castle Coeffin.

A few impressions from Lismore:








Castle Coeffin
The path was a bit boggy at times but views of the mainland and the coast ahead were just lovely.
Once again I realized how much I enjoy a day walking along a British coast. It's got that raw beauty, the smell of salt, the green fields, the views. A nice change from dragging myself up rugged mountains.

Traversed the island and walked back to the ferry along the South-East coast passing a Broch, which is an old round tower which supposedly belonged to a chieftain about 2000 years ago.

Me and two others walked ahead on the tarmac road to the ferry landing and really had to push it to actually catch it at 4:15 and let the operators know that the others are not far behind us. They had no room for all of us anyway to took a few local people over and then came back for us. By then all of our group had arrived.

Had a pint at the restaurant on the other side and I would've loved to taste one of their famous fish dishes. But there was dinner waiting for us back at our house.
Packed most of my stuff before another great three-course-meal. I've never eaten so much salmon in my life and was full to bursting afterwards, hahaha.

I was too tired to sit long with the others - shame on the last day. Packed the rest and went to bed rather early.

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