Week 3 - Monday

Week 3 - Monday - Loch Ranza

We wake up this morning on a mooring buoy  in Loch Ranza, on the isle of Arran.

We arrived last night and for the first time we were able to eat outside. The original plan was to eat Paul's homemade shepherds pie. However it was still frozen due to an administrative error i.e. we forgot to get it out of the fridge until midday!

We did come up with a plan to defrost it faster, which involved putting the containers out on deck in the sun as we sailed along. The only problem was that each time we tacked the sails, we also had to tack the pies (!) to avoid them sliding onto the floor. We soon got bored and gave up!

Pasta Surprise (tuna!) sufficed instead.

We then pumped up the dinghy and rowed across to the pub. It was a nice place but did seem to have a large number of drunk people in it.

Had our first encounter with the dreaded midges, but hopefully got away with it. Paul has bought me a full head mosquito net - perhaps an improvement because you can't see my horrible beard through it!

In case you wondered the beard is growing well but itching like mad. However I will persevere, because without it I will never be able to persuade people to call me Captain Rusty - which is the main objective of the trip!

Off to Kames today, which is close to the Kyles of Bute.