Lochranza

We woke up to another wet morning. We had thought about visiting the R Burns museums in Alloway, but we decided just to press on to Ardrossan to pick up the ferry to Arran.
We chanced upon an Asda store in Ayr where we picked up bits and pieces before crossing to Arran.
The ferry crossing was very smooth and running to schedule. We assumed that somewhere ahead of us, as we left the port was Brodick. We could not see the island in the murk.
As we arrived, the skies lifted a bit, and, on our journey to Locranza, the beauty of the island revealed itself to us.
All set up by 4 pm, we decided to go for a short walk to stretch our legs a bit. To celebrate our arrival on the island, we thought a beer and wine or two at the hotel would be nice.
We had a bit of a communication breakdown with the site warden, who was a bit vague about timings and distances. Setting of at 4:10pm we climbed over the fell to Laggan in order to pick up the coastal path north to Fairy Dell beach. This section of the path (5k in length) could best be described as a scramble across a horizontal mountain. The path was barely discernable. There were very few flat grassy sections, and the 5k took us 2 hours to complete. Sheer slog at times (not enjoyable) and extremely challenging. But by this point we had no choice other than to carry on. From Fairy Dell there was a further 3 miles back to Lochranza, and we couldn't face a further mile to the hotel. We arrived back at camp very wet and muddy - due to the wet boggy ground we traversed. On one occasion K stepped into boggy ground and sank to calf level - ugh!!!
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