Back in touch

Well we now have communications again.  Mobile phones work.  Even the internet (at around 3 bits/sec - no photos this time).  We even got a newspaper!

We're properly in the  north now, having rounded Ardnamurchan point - incidentally it's the westernmost point of mainland Britain.  We've spent a day and a couple of nights on Canna.  Surely you know Canna (population 13 and lovely)?  It's in the Small Isles, along with Rum, Muck and Eigg. It was an unexpectedly hard sail to get there, but worth it.  Sea Eagles, Golden Eagles (we think) and other wildlife abound.  Surprisingly we found that they are converting an old Church there as a theatre.  Now Farnham can't support a theatre - Canna though...! 

And then back to southern Skye, with dolphins escorting us and dinner in a remote hotel.  Now we're in Plockton, near Kyle of Loch Alsh.  We're roughly on schedule, though we've chosen some different stops to the "plan" (which was only ever conceptual).

The weather's been a bit mixed, breezy, cold - very cold at times - and showery, but no gales.  It's a bit too unsettled for us to follow our plan to get into one of the lochs around the Cuillin mountains on Skye.  Unfortunately our friends Steve and Mandy couldn't be with us around Skye, but we hope to meet with other friends in Gairloch on Wednesday.  Betwen now and then...we haven't decided!