Carskey Bay from the Road to the Mull of Kintyre

15.1C with a sunny morning. From about 1pm dark clouds appeared with heavy showers through the afternoon. Moderate SW breeze.

Grocery shopping over by mid morning. We left Maeve the Deerhound at home again.

We went the ten miles or so South to Southend then followed the road round past Dunaverty beach to Carskey Bay where we had a walk with Maeve from one end of the beach to the other and back. It was sunny and clear with the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland very clear on the horizon. The sea was very active with lots of waves crashing on the shore and running up the beach. The air was full of salt spray. Maeve had a great time wandering along and occasionally having a little run to catch us up.

When we got back to the car we had a notion to drive round to the Mull of Kintyre hoping we might get there before the showers started although we could see dark clouds out to sea to the South West. The road from Carskey is single track and gets very narrow and very steep on the approach to the point where the road stops. Just as we reached the car park there was a very heavy shower, so we waited for it to pass then went for a short walk down the hill part way until we could at least see the top of the lighthouse down below on the cliffs. We could see Northern Ireland for no more than a minute or two before the next shower started to sweep across the sea towards us so we went back to the car and decided to come home for a late lunch. We will go back another time when we can take our time to walk to the lighthouse and I think take a lot of time to climb back up the hill.

On the way to Southend we had checked the farm stand for Little Farm. Almost empty today.

The photo was taken from the road not long after we had left Carskey on the first climb. Looking back there is Carskey Bay, then Dunaverty. You can see the smaller Sheep island then Sanda island, and in the distance on the horizon is Ailsa Craig.

Later Apothecary7 carried on with her latest painting.

Afternoon music ... BBC radio 2, Johnny Walker then Paul O'Grady.

DMC-LX7 f/3.5 1/1600 sec. ISO-80 5mm (35mm focal length 24mm)