Day 8- Meander in the sun

Unknowingly under Cul Mor's nose

Yes, you read it right I did say sun!! After camping the previous night in complete fog it was fantastic to get up in the sunshine and realise the amazing views that were around us. So we took the opportunity to lay out a load of clothes to dry before munching down some breakfast and setting off for our short sunny paddle. We paddled back around the corner into Loch Veyatie; dawdling along in the brilliant weather.

We messed around in the canoe, turning around to have a picnic, paddling with our feet out and just generally chilling and enjoying the sun.  Even with our meandering along it only took us a few hours to paddle back to the Elphin fish hatcheries where we camped up on actual grass!

We were soon joined by another group with dogs and a two year old which was quite a shock after our isolation, it was really nice to chat with them, well one woman was quite…. Flamboyant, she was loud and cackled like a witch but she was definitely interesting.

Enjoying the sun with some university work and notes for this blog ironically

Due to the arrival of the other group ‘toileting’ proved difficult as we figured we better be discreet so we paddled up the lake in the dusk light, watching the sun go down over the glass still water and pulled up on a beach around the corner to have one last nature poo. Well mine wasn’t ready so I left it until the next day but I sure did enjoy the sky and the striking colours.

In the end it was such a peaceful, restful day, even hearing about the 50mph winds forecast tomorrow but that wouldn't put us off doing Cul Mor.

Scotland really delivered, we were mesmerised by the sunset and the still loch