Its 7pm and I'm sitting on the bed in my b&b sipping a glass of South African Chenin Blanc, its still about 24 degrees and the sun is streaming through the windows. I have had a few really good days, met some lovely people and had some deep and meaningful conversations with total strangers!!
So, to bring you up to date, Saturday was a blustery, overcast day in Fort William and I was a little bit foot sore after my mountaineering on Friday, so I rugged up and headed off on a cruise on Loch Linnhe to see the seals and learn a bit about the place.
Loch Linnhe is a sea loch so its open to the North Sea, its name means the black Loch, so called because like Loch Ness there is a lot of peat in the water which deflects the sunlight and makes the water dark, its also extremely deep.
As we cruised along the loch, we went past an old fishing boat that had been blown ashore in the hurricane force winds in December 2011, unfortunately the water is too shallow and the boat too bogged in the sand for it to be salvaged.
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The next point of interest was an ice breaking ship that transports Scottish timber to Sweden and Norway to be made into wood chips and paper and brings back timber for housing and furniture. The owner is a local guy who bought two of these ships when he finished uni. He worked out that transporting timber this way was more sustainable and used only 1/8th of the fuel that trucks were using to do the same job.
From there we looked at a fish farm, it farms Atlantic Salmon and has them table ready in 2 years rather than the 6 years it takes for wild caught salmon.
Then we headed to seal Island, soooo cute, before heading back to FW.
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