GMac
Graeme MacLeod Joined: July 14th 2009
Logged in: July 20th 2009
Logged in: July 20th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
Today was all about the primal instinct of the male hunter gatherer! Douglas and I hired a boat and set off into the middle of Loch Leven where we spent a couple of hours fishing, I setup a 4 hook lure with a 2 gram weight and managed to haul 3 mackerel in one go. This caused a slight problem as we hadn't thought we would catch anything so didn't have a batten! Luckily an oar dealt with this issue promptly. After a couple of hours and a total of 5 fish we headed for shore and the BBQ. Nw that we are clearly seasoned hunters, we shall make for the hills and the nearest bear to wrestle!... read more
Arrived in Oban for some lunch, a look around and a bit of shopping. As we were walking along the harbour side I came across a boat called the Kylebhan. I sailed on this boat in 1989 back from St Kilda. Where at the time there was a small army outpost listening to submarine traffic and a communications outpost for the the North Atlantic. Getting out to the island was on an army landing craft with a flat bottom that basically drives up onto the beach to offload. Bought a 9ft sea rod today to do some spinning on Loch Leven, which is a sea loch with Mackerel and Sea Trout, along with some Salmon. I can report that so far I have caught a lot of seaweed, but nothing remotely edible! Will continue trying tomorrow. ... read more
A clear theme to the day...Rain...so in summary a lazy start, fitted some roof rails to the car to cope with the bikes, had lunch with Douglas and Katie and family and then headed down to Kinlochleven for a spell in the ice mountain, where you practice climing, by the way it is the biggest climing wall in Britain, then through the woods to the Grey Mare's tail. Midge's were feeling energetic and hungry! The sun finally appeared so a short spell down at the loch before resorting to the Awning and a few drinks.... read more
We started with the drive from Auchterarder to Glencoe, about 3 hours in total, I can report that the piper at the layby about 20 miles from Glencoe is still there, pipiing. I reckon he must make about 200 quid a day in cash for his efforts. He has also bought a new camper van this year! The burgers are still excellent and if you a tattie scone on the top you get a fine piece of Scottish Culnery. We arrived at Glencoe at about 1:30, got set up, opened the wine / beer and whiskey and frankly can;t remember much else.... read more
