All around Oban.

 

Thursday July 20 2017.

Ha we slept in! Bonus.  When we all finally got up, we had a cooked breakfast prepared by the master chef Sally. I then had my hair done by the master barber Sally and then had a great hot shower.

Once all that was done we walked to Dunstaffnige  Castle where we found a Geo Cache and did the Castle.

The Castle was built in the 13 century as a MacDougal fort on a volcanic plug that dictated its shape. It overlooked a  water cross roads at the mouth of Loch Etive. It was captured by Robert the Bruce in 1309 and turned over to the Campbells in 1407. Garrisoned by Government forces in the 1745 rebellion where Flora MacDonald was held prisoner and destroyed by fire in 1810. It was partially rebuilt and used by the Caampbells into the 20^th century.

We read the return bus schedule wrong and I walked the whole way back to the boat. While Sally and Dianne managed to catch the bus almost out to the highway and went into Oban to Tesco’s to do some shopping.  They met Dawn in Tesco’s and shared a cab back to the Marina. Once back we all went to the wide mouthed frog for dinner. We got back to the boat late and exhausted.

Friday July 21 2017.

We all got up early as Dianne had to catch a cab to take her to the Train station as she was leaving us and going on the train to Mallaig,then to Glasgow and on to Edinberg.

Sally managed to get one load of washing done. At 0900 we met Dave and Dawn on Chrystolyn for a planning session as to where we were going to go. It was decided that we would go North to Loch Drambuie on Saturday. Returned to Kalinka1 and had a very easy lay about day as we were both shattered.