Saturday, 18 May 2024

Loch Na Keal, Isle of Mull

Late yesterday evening we joined the other campers to watch a peach of a sun lower in the sky. At the same time the wind direction swung to the north. Coats on everyone.

This morning the cold wind continued. Cooking outside was a challenge for John. But omelettes have to be made. 

Before packing up a young couple from New Zealand stopped to take a look at our set up. Awesome, did you hear that Muddy Marge, you're starting to become the centre of attention, which is fine except when we want to be on your way. A second couple from South Africa also wanted to give her the once over. The man all over her like a rash. We can see we are going to have to accept this attention will probably continue wherever we travel. Finally ready to set off we gave the South Africans a Muddy Marge car, (yes she has cards), so they could follow our blog.

Today we intended to visit some waterfalls. But driving on Mull is a long slow process, which goes with the territory.


There is of course photographs to take, and spotting a pretty stone bridge we knew it was one for the album.

Early afternoon we arrived at Loch Na Keal realising we'd parked up here overnight on our last visit to the island. We found the same spot, settled in and then took a walk out, spotting a ravens nest on a ledge amongst the boulders.




There'd be no visit to the waterfalls today. Oh well there's always tomorrow.


Tonight we spoke to another camper who showed us the nests of an Oyster Catcher (3 eggs), and a Plover (4 eggs). These are on the beach right in front of the vans, so we will now keep off the beach.


Yes Angela was cold, and wearing quite a few layers, she had not had a few Weetabix as her son suggested :)

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