Fyne journey today. Inveraray to Portavadie 27 July 2024

 

Looking up to the top end of Loch Fyne early this morning.
Mirror calm, and not raining!!

We had a very calm night on the mooring, leading to a good night’s sleep 💤.  Lovely.  Only interrupted by the normal visit to the heads (toilet) in the middle of the night, to be rewarded by a magnificent display of phosphorescence flushing through the system - a sign of a healthy sea. Well worth getting up for.

Images of Inveraray 

We left the mooring at 08.00 still in flat calm conditions.  Breakfast as we motored.  Saw Harbour Porpoises on three occasions. Not quite as many birds as yesterday, but much better scenery because we could see it today. We had a relaxing 3 hour trip to Portavadie where we got an easy berth.

No sooner did we arrive but the sun came out. A real rarity this week, and it was warm.  

Portavadie marina is located in a quarry-like basin that was originally created to facilitate the building of oil drilling platforms - this didn’t happen and so (eventually) the hole was used for a marina.  A really modern development of holiday apartments and cottages, a restaurant, swimming pool and spa, has been built to one side of the hole.  The toilets and showers are wonderful.

After lunch we went for a walk through Glenan Wood - a remnant of North Atlantic temperate rainforest.  A wonderful woodland with sessile oak, lots of birch and rowan.  The walk takes you along the shore with lots of very old trees with ropes and makeshift swings attached, great for kids, and then up and through the inner woodland.

Monumental art along the shore section of the Glenan Wood walk.

After our walk we went to the spa to use the swimming pools and jacuzzis.  What a treat!

We’re all clean and shiny now, and a bit tired.  The sun is still shining so it is time for an aperitif on the flybridge before dinner.  You couldn’t beat it with a big stick! It feels like summer.


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