Caledonian Canal here we come




After a good stay in Oban, we left yesterday morning for Corpach Marina, ready to begin our journey along the Caledonian Canal today. It was brilliant to have Bev on the boat for the day.  John and Toby met us at the Marina in the evening and we all went to have supper at their cottage. The dry weather has inevitably come to an end. For the first half of yesterday it poured down. Bev was a real star, stoically sitting in the rain, her feet getting wetter and wetter but refusing to opt out and stay in the cabin in the dry. By the afternoon, we were rewarded with a glimmer of sun and our first real sail without engine in this trip. It was beautiful.   As a bonus, as we left the marina last night for Bev and John’s place, we were there at first hand to see a steam train come past - for train buffs, apparently it was an LMS Stanier Class No. 45212, build by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle in 1935. 

Today we are entering the Canal at 11.00 together with Moon River and Hilda. More tales of adventure will inevitably follow! 

P.s. A postscript on the water tank.  I had a message on my DPD app saying it had been delivered (but no indication of where) last Wednesday, received by Stevenson. We asked in the North Pier and at Kerrera but no one had seen it.  A chance remark to Paul, the water taxi man, elicited the marvellous news that he had seen it in the laundry at Kerrera - and it was indeed there. An Alastair Stevenson is the local delivery man.  Life in the Highlands and Islands!


Kerrera to Oban         0.85 nms

Oban to Corpach Marina        31.3 nms

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