Day 3 - Salt water to fresh...

Spent the morning recovering from the excesses of last night. What compels sane people to drink double whiskies all night when in Scotland ?
Decided a walk was a good idea and set off on foot to explore the Island of Kerrera... windy and wet but fantastically unspoilt - no roads, just a track from one end of the island to the other.

Back on board, we waited for the wind to drop and set off at a steady pace (keeping pace with the wind which was from behind) We only had 30 miles to cover today, so the pace was relaxed as the most beautiful scenary opened up in front of us. As we made our way NNE up the Sound of Jura, we begain to understand the geography of the Western Isles and Lochs of Scotland. At the northern tip of Jura we passed the notorious Gulf of Corryvreckan, a very narrow stream of water rushing into the Sound from the Atlantic squeezed between Jura and the tiny island of Scarba. The volume of water rushing through the Gulf creates a whirlpool some 60 metres in diameter which has claimed many a boat inrecent history.

As we cruised up Loch Linnhe the feeling of solitude was very real, we saw no other boats all afternoon and were suprised and dissapointed to arrive at Fort William just short of 3 hrs after leaving Karrera.

A short leg, but surely the most beautiful of the trip so far !