Last night's rain moved on in the night leaving a light mist dancing over the haunting black rocks on the beach below. The view different but still stunning. Each in turn our happy little community of four vans and a car (micro camper) woke.
Before leaving we chatted with some of our neighbours about everyone's travels and stop overs in Scotland. Then we walked up to the lighthouse. Out in the bay, a little offshore the wreck of a container ship which went down in the 1980's was visible beneath the waves. Just before we bid farewell to our beautiful overnight stop a curtain of light rain fell. Oh well this is Scotland.
Today we needed food shopping and Marge needed fuel so we set off along the coast to Girvan. Parking for vans is £5.35 overnight here and this includes use of the showers. The rain arrived on and off and the nearby mountains played hide and seek with the low cloud. When we arrived at Girvan a fun fair was in town taking up a large section of the harbour car park, so we did our shopping, sorted out Marge and drove up the coast to Ardrossan, where the ferry runs to the isle of Arran, but it was a large town and we could sense there might be aggravation during the night, so more driving this time just north of Glasgow to Dumbarton which lies on the north bank of the river Clyde.
In 1869 the British clipper ship the Cutty Sark was built in a shipyard on the
river Leven just opposite.
A walk before dinner along the foreshore through the fairy garden gave us a chance to stretch our legs and wind down after a not very enjoyable day.
You can't win them all can you? Tonight, we need to plan the next few days carefully as we head up the west coast.
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