Up late and following a great Katie breakfast, we all set off for Inverchaolin on Loch Striven, where in the churchyard there is a whole bunch of Currie relatives buried. Spent about an hour in the churchyard, just wandering and looking at tombstones and the nice little stone church built in 1912 to replace a wooden one that burned down-none of our relatives would have been in this church as had already left the area. Very calm and peaceful there except for the midges, which are fierce.
Beautiful summers day in Scotland -19 degrees, no wind but lots of midges ( we do hear it is 3 degrees in Auckland today –so sad!! ) and the loch was beautiful.
Also tried to find the Dunoon Bowling club with the gold medal but needed more time. Also stopped by the hospital and took heaps of photos of their H1N1 arrangements –all around the back of hospital with lots of signs about what to do –couple of portable cabins set up as triage area and tamiflu dispensing areas. Went right to the door of assessment area ( no patients in sight ) and spoke to nurse dressed in theatre scrubs, plastic apron, gloves, mask –maintained my “social distancing” whilst talking to her. Secondary school here with 1,000 pupils has been closed for a week.
Back to Dunoon for yet another glorious Katie meal and then on the road again about 2.30 pm and arrived at the Glen Nevis YHA near Fort William about 7.30 pm-in an 8 bed dormitory this time with all Japanese women party. There are also about 12 Dutch Harley Davidson riders here this evening –all middle aged, about 7 ft tall and built to match, all in black motorcycle gear –seem pleasant tho.
Facilities not quite as good as the English YHA hostels we have stayed in but do have wireless broadband for 3 pound per hour.
Still light at 11 pm.
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