It has been a grey windy afternoon, with the hills opposite the site obscured by cloud.
It was the right choice to put the back of my tent into the wind – a few tents on the site that chose to pint their tents at the view have been battered by the strong winds with two of the being blown down. I have shot some video of my tent in the wind which I will post when I leave 1985 and move back into the 21st century and the Internet!
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I had planned a cashew nut noodle curry for tea tonight – then a Fish and Chip Van turned up at the campsite.
So I had very good haddock and chips, sitting in the back of my car, watching a movie on my iPad.
The Skye Camping and Caravan Club site is located on the side of Loch Greshornish near Edinbane. The site is very exposed to the the prevailing westerly winds – which were blowing hard as I put my tent up.
Because of the wind I pitched the back of the tent to the view (and wind) and put the wind break at the back to give the tent some protection. This also means I am cooking at the back of the tent.
Not that it is windy all time – this morning the wind had dropped off to a light breeze and I had my breakfast looking out over the loch.
There is no EE phone signal at the site so no 3G or even 2G, the posts I have made this morning have been done in Portree, where there is a poor 2G EE service. I looked around the village for a cafe with wifi but could not find one – and the couple of BT wifi signals I found had their public wifi turned off!
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I have moved onto Dingwall Camping and Caravan Club site and managed to get my MSR Hubba tent up in between the rain showers.
The Oban Camping and Caravan Club site is a converted walled garden.
It started raining last night at about 10pm and looking at the puddles on the grass, this morning, it has rained all night – I am posting this from a car park in Oban (with 3G) and it is still raining.
As I have 3G here I have posted a full sized version of the Loch Lomond panorama here.
I received some new kit today from Alpkit – a larger titanium mug, to complement my current MSR titanium mug, in my lightweight backpacking cooking kit..
New equipment for 2013 Alpkit MytiMug
