West Coast Road Trip

The weather didn't look too promising for our planned road trip but we set off after breakfast anyway, prepared for anything!  The blue skies and sunshine were soon with us, and the scenery was spectacular.  We stopped where we could on the way for photo opportunities, which is a bit difficult on single track roads with only passing places available!

The scenery was simply spectacular!  You can hardly do it justice in just a few snapshots.  If you could guarantee sunny weather in Scotland, you would never need to go anywhere else!  I'm not going to put captions on most of these photos though as I really have no idea where we were apart from the fact that we were travelling on the west coast up towards Calgary Beach and Tobermory!!

Looking towards Calgary Beach

The next three photos are taken on Calgary Beach.  It was a lovely spot, but I honestly thought that it would have been much cleaner.  There was a large amount of seaweed and some litter lying about which spoiled the look of it quite a lot.

We sat on some rocks and had lunch here then we set off again towards Glengorm Castle where there are some standing stones - and a cafe!! 

Saw this 'coo' on the way to Glengorm

Walking towards the standing stones

Leafy walk up to Glengorm Castle

Well, as you can see, the clouds had started to roll in and, once we got back to the car and started driving towards Tobermory, those clouds started dropping rain on us so it was a very damp visit in Tobermory and not much opportunity to take photos.  This was the only one that I managed to take

At one of the shops though we saw this sign which confirms the sighting of six bottlenose dolphins at Iona the day before, which are the ones that we saw from Iona Abbey.

It was damp and misty all the way back from Tobermory, so not much more chance for photos, which was a shame.  This is the only half-decent one that I managed to get

It was then fingers crossed that the rain didn't continue for the planned trip to Duart Castle in the morning.