Blazing Bank holiday

Whilst the south had a wet and miserable weekend, the west coast was amazing. Dave was suffering from withdrawal symptoms from Scotland having beeen back in Cornwall for a whole weekand, so he came back up for some great paddling.

Saturday we paddled into Knoydart from Mallaig, dodged up the coast to Tarbet, accross to the Kyles and down to Inverie. We camped on the Bivy site at Inverie and headed to the Pierhouse for an excellent meal, pints in the pub afterwards. The wind got up a bit in the morning making us regret the second round in pub as we bobbed about in an interesting sea! We headed for home in a nice lumpy sea with a following wind. I was much comfier in the new boat in these conditions than I had been in the Quest LV, Dave did find the LV a little challenging but that may have been the Jack Daniels coming back to haunt him.

I dropped Dave back at the airport on Monday morning, having had time to change my kit as I passed through home and headed off to Mountain Bike. It was a lovely afternoon, great weather though a bit windy. I joined up with Mark for the afternoon and we headed out of Inverness. 32 miles later and after far to many hills we got back, leaving Mark enough time for a shower before he headed out to work and I went home to collapse on the sofa, glad I was getting a rest tomorrow..... well I was going to work, which is much more relaxing than all this excertion.