beach & beavers

D likes beaches and we had to drive quite a way to find this one,  Kilmory, at the end of a long single-track road on the far side of Loch Sween. It was worth the drive, and more so for a visit to Kilmory Knap Chapel, which houses the best collection of grave slabs I've seen (see 1st extra). In  the main photo you can just make out Beinn Shiantaidh (the Sacred Mountain) rising above the mist. This is one of the 3 Paps of Jura, which we climbed on a family holiday some years back. A hard walk but a good one...

On our way back from the beach, we called in at Barnluasgan, where the Scottish Beaver Trial took place. Beavers have been extinct in Scotland for the past 400 years, but have been successfully reintroduced here, and it was announced yesterday that they are to be a legally protected species.

We didn't see any beavers (they're best spotted at dawn or dusk and when you don't have a dog with you!) but we did see plenty of signs that they had been there (see 2nd extra)