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We decided that we would take the bus along the coast to Tobermory. The roads are narrow so Karen had a chance to look a bit more at the views along the coast road.
Tobermory is a picture postcard town on the shore around a sweeping bay. Balamory of childrend's book fame is apparemtly modelled on the town.
It is full of independent cafe's, gift, shops and art gallerys on the sea front.
We spent some time in the small museum which was very interesting - it gave a lot of background on the activities of the Maclean clan on the island. It seems, that historically, the family was quite prominent in supporting and sometimes fighting against the other clan groups, both on the island and the mainland. Sometimes successful, sometimes not, one way or the other they managed to hang on to most of their posessions until they supported Bonnie Prince Charlie at Cullodan. Big mistake after which they became less wealthy to the point where the cunning Campbells of Argyll took over a lot of the estates.
A bit of mercenary work helped them back from the brink.
The lady in the museum remembered the passage of TS George V passing up and down the sound, stopping of at Tobermory on its tours. Maybe, grandad Captain Maclean was on one of those passages.
We then took the woodland walk along to the lighthouse on the headland. Here we enjoyed our lunch, we saw a lot of people with binoculars getting excited about a dickie bird high above the cliff. We could just pick it up with the naked eye, we were assured that it was an eagle, by the people with better binoculars than ours. we then took the high path back to Tobermory, climbing high onto the cliff top to return to town via the golf course. There were some good views of Loch Linnie to our left.Leggi altro