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Scotland Day 5 - Further into the Highlands and Back

After a great day on the river, and another good evening in the pub, we left the Taynuilt Hotel and headed further North into the highlands. Our first stop was a little further upstream on the river we had fished. There were some falls, so we stopped to enjoy the scenery and take some pictures. Below are some shots of us hanging out by the river. The first one is just a picture of the river, which hasn't been tainted with any of our mugs.

Me just hanging out on the rock.

Not exactly sure what he is doing, but he is obviously having a good time doing it.

Just happy to have clean clothes, although you couldn't tell it from that face.

Me trying not to go in the drink.

From there we ventured toward Fort William via Glen Coe.

While driving through the Glen, we pulled over to take some pictures and we found a piper (what are the chances).

After listening to the piper for a few minutes, we got back in the car and finished our journey to Fort William. Fort William is the home of Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in the UK. Unfortunately we didn't have the time to make the trek up the mountain. I hope to make it back there next spring to actually climb the mountain (Ren, let me know if you want me to pick you up a patch).

Fort William sits on Loch Linnhe. To the right is a picture of the loch with some sail boats. After grabbing some food at the Grog and Gruel, we turned back South toward Oban. We stopped in Oban to pick up some souvenirs for the tourists and to see the tides.
After Oban we stopped by Kilmartin Glen to see the stone circles (and the sheep) and the old church with the ancient head stones. After that, we started back towards Glasgow.

On our way back we were going to have dinner at the original Loch Fyne Seafood Restaurant, but unfortunately we decided to use the restroom prior to getting a table, and while we were doing that someone came in a took the last non-reserved table. It must be good, since it is in the middle of nowhere, and they were fully booked. Unfortunately we will probably never know. We were literally 30 seconds from having a table, but instead we were forced to find something else. The next place we tried looked good, but we were told they couldn't serve us unless we wanted to wait until after the party of 25 (which wasn't there yet) had left. Instead we ended up eating what looked like frozen appetizer food in the only pub we could find.

After all of that, we finally made it back to Glasgow for our last night in Scotland. The photo to the right is our obligatory group photo, just after last call at the pub.














Here's looking forward to the next fishing trip.

Yankee

posted by Yankee @ 8:17 PM