Oban

A travelling day today.
On our way up to Inverary missed the Loch Fyne end of the Crinan Canal. This was somewhere we had been advised to look out for, so we decided to return to Lochgilphead to have a look.
The canal was built to take commercial boats from the west coast, at Crinan, into Loch Fyne, therefore missing out an arduous and hazardous route around the Mull of Kintyre. It is nine miles long.
Nowadays, it is open in the summer months and is primarily used by yachting people. We parked up mid way along and watched a number of boats navigating the locks, each boat seemed to have paid for a canal pilot to assist with the heavy work. A good workout for the pilots.
The road to Oban was slow (twists and turns) mitigated by the beautiful scenery.Weiterlesen