Davaar Island walk

Today the hotel breakfast was late, 9am, so I went for a walk first. I found the public library and, in the same building, a public pool! It was a lovely morning and Campbeltown looked nice.

Campbeltown War Memorial

  It never hurts to spy a rainbow!

And here's the noisy pub, The Feathers Inn, under my room, The Argyll Arms. The hotel was once the Duke of Argyll’s Victorian hunting lodge.

Breakfast came with packets of Nutella! Those are a welcome first on this trip. The ham is called bacon here in the U.K. Why? It is as puzzling as the washcloth question. And are canned or fresh mushrooms usually served? (My server this morning wasn't sure but thought fresh) Catherine told me fresh fruit is not very good in Ireland and so they mostly used frozen fruit.

The walk to the lighthouse was quite long. There were only about 8 other people walking the causeway to the island. At one point I could hear a woman very clearly berating the man walking 10 ft ahead of her. She told him he tries to control everything and she's going to do it to him so he will know how it feels. It made me glad to be by myself. 

It was a beautiful day in Kintyre, about 60 degrees, with rain due the rest of the week!

        Highland cow

At one point it was so hard to walk with all the big rocks and slippery seaweed I almost gave up and turned around but realized the other side (at noon) was much easier.

I had checked the tide tables and thought I had plenty of time, until 5:00, but already at 2:00 part of the causeway was covered in water! Perhaps there was a reason I was the only one still walking on the island? I panicked a bit thinking I might be stuck overnight on the island or have to swim back to Campbeltown!

Made it! And now I'm going to finally do laundry, long overdue!

My beautiful laundrette. It was a very busy place, especially the dryers, probably because most people have a clothes washer but not a clothes dryer. It cost £4 for the little washer, £5 ($6.72) for the big one. BYO soap! Nice view of the bay and lots of books and Vogue magazines to read.