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Another Trip to Camas

Arran and I decided to head back up to Camas for the week before School started again.

2020-08-13 Camas_001.jpg We stopped for lunch at Black Water again, which was a bit fuller this time.
2020-08-13 Camas_002.jpg Stac Pollaidh - look, blue skies!
2020-08-13 Camas_003.jpg On the way over to the house - Arran is pleased to have a load in his rucksack too - he likes helping!
2020-08-13 Camas_004.jpg Once the house was opened up we headed for the beach for some evening sun!
2020-08-13 Camas_007.jpg Digging holes is a serious business.
2020-08-13 Camas_008.jpg We tried to get a nice beach selfie, but we were too busy laughing at each other!
2020-08-13 Camas_009.jpg Sun setting over the bay.
2020-08-13 Camas_012.jpg Misty Mountains. We could see the cloud piled up to the East, but it wasn't getting past the mountains to bother us today.
2020-08-13 Camas_018.jpg Another sunsetty one.
2020-08-13 Camas_014.jpg Sunset glow.
2020-08-13 Camas_022.jpg When I was wee I pretended these rocks in front of the house were a lighthouse and I was the lighthouse keeper. Arran is now doing the same. He's up there with a walkie talkie to communicate with base camp.
2020-08-13 Camas_025.jpg At the "Swimming Pool" - a giant rockpool.
2020-08-13 Camas_028.jpg Oops! Someone wasn't looking where they were going and stepped in a boggy bit. Their welly didn't come out with them...
2020-08-13 Camas_030.jpg Welly-less!
2020-08-13 Camas_034.jpg A rather big beastie hole. I wonder what lives in there... Arran refused to crawl in to find out.
2020-08-13 Camas_035.jpg The old mill at Totaig.
2020-08-13 Camas_036.jpg Eating a picnic lunch in a wee nook.
2020-08-13 Camas_039.jpg Totaig Burn
2020-08-13 Camas_043.jpg Boy & Totaig Burn.
2020-08-13 Camas_044.jpg Out exploring in the boat.
2020-08-13 Camas_048.jpg A wee amateur radio experiement up the hill...
2020-08-13 Camas_049.jpg ...for a QSO with a view (via a Repeater in Stornoway).
2020-08-13 Camas_050.jpg Sunset.
2020-08-13 Camas_052.jpg More sunset.
2020-08-13 Camas_054.jpg Out for a morning fish.
2020-08-13 Camas_057.jpg Arran's first catch! A nice mackerel, and an enormous Lithe (Pollack).
2020-08-13 Camas_058.jpg These were duly eaten for lunch, and pronounced delicious.
2020-08-13 Camas_060.jpg Misty patches drifting over the bay.
2020-08-13 Camas_061.jpg More mist.
2020-08-13 Camas_067.jpg The mist didn't stop us going to the beach as it was warm and sunny in between patches.
2020-08-13 Camas_068.jpg Misty beach.
2020-08-13 Camas_070.jpg Jumping over waves.
2020-08-13 Camas_073.jpg Baywatch run.
2020-08-13 Camas_074.jpg Another misty patch.
2020-08-13 Camas_075.jpg Ahhh! Sunshine again.
2020-08-13 Camas_076.jpg Cloud pouring over the mountains.
2020-08-13 Camas_083.jpg Clear skies to the West.
2020-08-13 Camas_088.jpg Blue water.
2020-08-13 Camas_089.jpg So blue today!
2020-08-13 Camas_099.jpg Definitely a day for the beach - Achnahaird this time.
2020-08-13 Camas_100.jpg Ready for Action.
2020-08-13 Camas_104.jpg Beach selfie!
2020-08-13 Camas_105.jpg Tiny puffy clouds.
2020-08-13 Camas_106.jpg Arran quickly found a like-minded child to splash and play with.
2020-08-13 Camas_107.jpg Chasing through the shallows.
2020-08-13 Camas_109.jpg Splash!
2020-08-13 Camas_110.jpg Bye bye Achnahaird.
2020-08-13 Camas_113.jpg We headed back to the house to recover, then got tempted to go out to our own beach again...
2020-08-13 Camas_119.jpg We did a wee bit of swimming, and Arran had a go rowing the boat (under VERY close supervision of course).
2020-08-13 Camas_121.jpg The sign of a good day - swimming things drying in the sun on the washing line.
2020-08-13 Camas_122.jpg Mountains still cloudy!
2020-08-13 Camas_125.jpg Sunset.
2020-08-13 Camas_126.jpg Another sunset. Can you tell I enjoyed the sunsets?
2020-08-13 Camas_129.jpg A slightly duller morning.
2020-08-13 Camas_130.jpg Good visibility out to Lewis, but it was clearly a bit cloudy there!
2020-08-13 Camas_131.jpg The mountains near us had cloud pouring over them again.
2020-08-13 Camas_133.jpg Very dramatic.
2020-08-13 Camas_135.jpg We went exploring at Knockan Crag - the visitor centre for the Geopark.
2020-08-13 Camas_136.jpg Rocky ball.
2020-08-13 Camas_137.jpg Arran with one of the exposed transitions between layers of rock - this place is extraordinary because often you can see older rocks over newer ones - it's one of the places that helped geologists figure out own collisions between tectonic plates can see layers of old rock riding over newer ones.
2020-08-13 Camas_138.jpg Rocky ball again.
2020-08-13 Camas_139.jpg What a view from the top!
2020-08-13 Camas_140.jpg A model of the strata as they are exposed in this area, using the right rock types of course.
2020-08-13 Camas_142.jpg Allt nan Uamh Waterfall.
2020-08-13 Camas_144.jpg A lovely highland stream.
2020-08-13 Camas_146.jpg The stream just appears out of a gravel filled limestone sinkhole - it's quite incredible to watch this water apparently appearing from nowhere.
2020-08-13 Camas_147.jpg Arran in one of the bone caves.
2020-08-13 Camas_148.jpg Bones of arctic fox, wolf, lynx, brown bear and even Polar bear were found here, as were artefacts indicating the presence of Iron Age humans.
2020-08-13 Camas_149.jpg Another cave.
2020-08-13 Camas_150.jpg Boy Observing.
2020-08-13 Camas_151.jpg I'm not sure I fancy sleeping in here...
2020-08-13 Camas_152.jpg The caves are at the top of a steep slope, in the bottom of a rocky crag. The gusty wind made this path quite exciting...
2020-08-13 Camas_153.jpg Even the "Danger, falling rocks" sign has fallen over...
2020-08-13 Camas_154.jpg The caves are just at the foot of the rocky bit.
2020-08-13 Camas_158.jpg You can only just see the entrances from ground level.
2020-08-13 Camas_162.jpg Another limestone sinkhole.
2020-08-13 Camas_163.jpg The Bone Caves from a distance.
2020-08-13 Camas_168.jpg Walker.
2020-08-13 Camas_170.jpg The spring again - it still blows my mind that so much water just appears through the gravel.
2020-08-13 Camas_171.jpg Waterfall on the way back to the car.
2020-08-13 Camas_175.jpg Ardvreck House
2020-08-13 Camas_177.jpg Ardvreck Castle
2020-08-13 Camas_180.jpg Ardvreck Castle
2020-08-13 Camas_183.jpg Ardvreck Castle
2020-08-13 Camas_184.jpg Me with Ardvreck Castle
2020-08-13 Camas_185.jpg Fishing from Badentarbet Pier on the way home. Cyclops got his first cast in the water, and quickly felt a pull so started winding in. We could see a flash of silver coming towards us, which a great skua immediately attacked. Cyclops exclaimed in dismay that a bird was going to get the fish before he did, and wound in faster. Only as it got really close did we realise the flash of silver was the white belly of a guillemot that had taken the lure, and that the skua was trying to steal the guillemots catch! So Cyclops had to haul this distressed and entangled guillemot still being attacked by a skua up the side of the pier, all the while shouting furiously in an attempt to discourage the skua. We had absolutely not a scooby how we would deal with this, but fortunately there was another guy fishing who dashed over and said he would help - it turns out he keeps pigeons so knows how to handle birds. He freed the guillemot which seemed little worse for its ordeal and flew off, managing to avoid the loitering skua. Went fishing, caught a bird. CyclopsJnr thought it was the funniest thing that had ever happened, and suggested that maybe we'd catch a whale or a dolphin next....
2020-08-13 Camas_188.jpg Out in the boat fishing again. More mackerel for lunch!
2020-08-13 Camas_190.jpg Fishing from Black Rocks.
2020-08-13 Camas_191.jpg Me taking a rest while Arran does the hard work.
2020-08-13 Camas_193.jpg A view of the house from Reiff. I never realised you could see it from here.
2020-08-13 Camas_194.jpg Bay in the Sun.
2020-08-13 Camas_196.jpg Farewell View
2020-08-13 Camas_197.jpg It always seems such a shame to leave in the sunshine.
2020-08-13 Camas_210.jpg Arran walking back to the car, with his laden rucksack once again!
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