Davaar Island

20.1C with rain through the night. Dull and cloudy through the morning. Clearing through the afternoon to sunny spells and warmer temperatures. Wind to 25 mph with gusts to 37 mph SSE, settling to a moderate breeze.

After lunch Maeve the Deerhound and I went for a  repeat of the morning walking route across the road and round to the park and the harbour and back along through town.

Once Maeve was back home and settled I went for a walk. Runrig on the iPod Mini (The Big Wheel then Searchlight, then The Cutter and The Clan). I went round past the harbour where the cargo ship Louis was at the new quay.  As I walked along a convoy with police cars escort vans and two low loaders brought wind turbine tower sections along the main road to the harbour. The cranes were in place on the quayside to load them onto Louis.

I went along by the ferry terminal and followed the shore side of the park and on out Kilkerran road past the Goldsmith's house and studio to the NATO jetty at Glenramskill and then kept going until I reached the 69 mile marker (or 31 miles if coming the other way) on the Kintyre Way which is out past the Doirlinn at Kildalloig Bay just before Davaar House. Looking North past Davaar island I could see up the coast of Kintyre to Carradale but the clouds were so low out over the Kilbrannan sound I couldn't see Arran at all. I liked this shot of Davaar island across Kildalloig Bay in isolation against a backdrop of cloud, rather than the usual backdrop of the South coast of Arran and a distant Ayrshire.

I turned at the marker and came back the same way. At the Goldsmith's house there was a Heron on the shore side sea wall. It didn't move as I went by. I suspect it wasn't 100% well.

I came back along the street side of the park and came back home through town. The tower sections had been loaded onto Louis by the time I got near the harbour and more sections had arrived on the quay. The bookshop was closed today. I stopped to have a look in the window.

Afternoon music ... Patty Loveless, When Fallen Angels Fly. Alison Krauss, Forget About It.

E-PL5 f/9 1/400 sec. ISO-200 14mm