Wed 6 Sept 14° Loch Fyne to Ardfern

Cool again today, dissapointing night as very noisy,  trucks coming and going all night, factories behind the shops working well into the wee small hours, the fish smokers going full bore and road surprisingly busy so not a very restful night.

Pat and Les have unknown workmen digging up part of their driveway in Spain, so need to get to a site for Ehu and wifi to download security camera footage. So they found a site at Ardfern £15 and they will head straight there, we will take our time and see them there.

We drove on along the side of the Loch the water was quite choppy.  Inveraray Castle,  preparing for a festival with banks of porta loos ready for the expectant numbers of visitors, then down through the quaint town of Inveraray, on along the Argyll coast route. Wet, grey, damp day, past young pines and ferns which take over from the Loch and logs of wood cut and piled up ready for collection.

Lumpy,  bumpy roads in parts then back on long smooth patches, nowhere near as bad as Ireland.

We drove into a hidden layby for morning coffee,  very narrow with bushy trees on one side, a motorhome and horse truck in front, hardly any room to pass by. Spoke to the motorhome driver in  front,he was a Scotsman he said he had just been to Isle of Arran but would be a bit wary of going to Skye as locals not very happy with all the tourists coming over, taking photos, using their roads and not spending much money .
He left and we followed him out slowly between trees and the horsetruck , just made it, no scratches.

Narrow roads with low stone walls then opening up back to fields of ferns over gently rolling hills.

Then along a very narrow single Lane road but with lots of passing bays, down past shop and pub. Lovely bay with boats dotted along  the water on one side and farms on the other and there was our camp at Ardfern Motorhome camp. Quite muddy after all the rain, Pat and Les there, one little wooden hut with a toilet and next to it a room for washing dishes, no showers, very rustic and basic, but lovely view of the Loch,  shame about the weather.

The rain stopped and the sun  came out, Pat brought us over a piece of scottish ginger bread, yummy, left Les to his computer and Tony reading the paper, Pat and I took the dogs for a walk. Lovely walk along the Loch side.

Wifi very intermittent Les couldn't get much done, so we walked to the pub Half a mile or so up the road, forraging blackberries along the way, had to wait 15 mins for it to open at 5pm.

First beer flat so took it back and they gave free different ale, saying the gas hadn't connected properly. Much better, Pleasant interlude, bit expensive being the only pub in the area. Walked back to camp and got dinner going, sausages, kumera chips and veg.