"Some day......"

...was what people kept saying as we drove to Toward, back through Innellan , on to Loch Eck and then home by Loch Striven.

First of all we had to go to Cathleen's school so that she could check that it was not flooded and the roof was still on. It was blowing a gale from the early hours and the tide was due to be at its highest for this year.

The school was fine, although it sits right by the shore but it was difficult to get out of the car given the strength of the wind.

On the way back we stopped in Innellan, and by the time we left the tide was at its peak and various parts of the road to Dunoon were badly flooded (pictures from the local paper here, whose photographer Archie we met at the flooded West Bay as he was taking some of these shots) with the sea breaking over the carriageway and damage to the pavement and the sea wall evident in a number of places. In two of them we only got through because I was driving a 4x4.

Finally we had an arrangement to have lunch at the Coylet Inn on Loch Eck and we thought that would be fine as it was away from the sea. But the Holy Loch had extended itself a long way further back than usual and the river running into it had burst its banks at the Cot House, turning the woodland into a loch. The water stretched upstream past Rashfield almost to Loch Eck itself.

Finally when coming back around the head of Loch Striven there were two cars which had been abandoned when the tide was at its highest and had come over the road.

All over Argyll the weather has been atrocious and I have been getting reports of flooding in lots of places which have never experienced it before with some damage to property though fortunately nothing more that that as yet.

The same experience is being had all over the west of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland today and the rain is now torrential again.

"Some day" indeed. In fact there have been far too many " some days" in recent weeks. Everyone I meet wishes it would stop.