Woke up at 0530 this morning and crawled out a lovely warm sleeping bag to assess that the wind was cold and southerly. On the back of last night’s inshore waters forecast from the Met Office saying today might get to F5-7 out the south I decided bed was more appealing than a fist fight with a massive chunk of wind strewn and mental tidal water.
After a lie-in, breakfast and a good stroll round and back via a couple of beaches it was obviously windy here on the Kintyre peninsula. In the spirit of making hay while the sunshines the tent and items of kit were dried, lots of food was eaten but the nine holes of golf at Dunaverty Golf Club (we’re camped on it’s fringe) was foiled by a lack of club steward or clubs for hire. Still despite the wind it was sunny and pleasant in the shelter.
In hindsight it might have been on today. The wind maybe got to F5 for a bit and it would have been a fight past Sron Uamha but the following sea from then on would have speedy and good. Sensibility had already prevailed and that is that.
Forecast for tomorrow are; winds lighter than a Kenyan marathon runner, a swell gentler than nurse’s manner and a tide that should carry us round and up the West side of Kintyre. Hopefully I’ll send an update from Gigha tomorrow evening.
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