Day 8, August 3rd, Strontian

We slept even later this morning and made it down for breakfast after 9:00. The guides were due to pick us up by 9:30, but they were a little late too. We headed off for the western tip of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula to hike some trails along the coast. The tip of the peninsula is the western most point on the mainland of the UK. There is a light house there.

The drive was again on narrow one lane roads that got smaller as we went. In the U.S. these would be called "The Sidewalk", yet here are shared by anything from sleeping sheep to large lorries carrying building materials. Our first stop was at what used to be a small fishing village, probably Viking. It was here that Bill performed the first of his three Scottish headstands. (Not sure why.)


We hiked past grazing sheep down to the site.


There was a small walled cemetary overgrown with bracken and nettles, but we managed to clear enough of it away to see the grave stones. They were very old with some interesting carvings on them.


We continued on to Sanna and started walking along the shore towards the lighthouse. The water was the color you would see in the Caribbean.


Some of us walked up to the top of the lighthouse, 180 feet above the sea. Nice view on a very windy day, with surf crashing into the rocky shoreline.


Headed back to the Kilcamb for our third and final multi-course dinner. We're sitting in the lounge with coffee and wee drams, writing these few final comments about a great stay in the Highlands.