School meeting at 9am. Cousins and coffee at Glengorm Coffee Shop at 10.30am. Quad bike tyre to MacKay's Garage for repair, pick up another one at the same time in Tobermory at 11.30pm.
Back to Dervaig to pick up C for drive down to Fionnphort. By this time it is 12.30pm. We decide we have time to drive the coast, and stop to eat sandwiches by Eas Fors. The light looking across to Gribun is wonderful, sparkling waters and deep shadows.
From Balmeanach looking back to Inch Kenneth, and Gometra.
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From Bunessan fishermen's pier looking over to the Burg.
The Calmac boat is tied up and we cross in a Staffa Tours foot passenger boat.
A 1960's view. It was total bliss to sit and look and listen, in the sun. Away from home, but not away.
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Even the birds are friendly on Iona. We had a blackbird sit on the table beside our teapot, disappointed we had not chosen to eat cake with our tea outside in the Argyll hotel garden. A sparrow came and checked for crumbs, and as I sat on the rocks a jackdaw came to say hello.
We are on Iona for a Community Trust board meeting. We all eat at the Argyll Hotel before the meeting. The food was delicious as was the view before sunset.
Our return journey began just after 10pm. We were taken back across to Fionnphort in the Birthe Marie belonging to Alternative Boat Hire. The sea was calm and silky blue, under clear skies and as Iona disappeared into the dark, an orange crescent moon rose above the silhouettes of rooftops and chimneys standing out against the astral twilight sky.
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I finally got home at 1am, but having taken a detour to Croig to see if the clear skies would yield some auroral light which it did. But that is another story.
