Road to the isles, 30th June, Grass Point to a hoax stone circle in Lochbuie

We had had a conversation with the manager of the campsite in Craignure, who was extremely helpful and advised us that white tailed sea eagles could be seen at Grass Point, just south east of Craignure. So we though that this would be our first port of call in Mull.


We drove towards Lochdon and tried to go down a small road leading to Gorsten. Unfortunately it was one of the very minor roads in Mull, where the trunk roads are single track, and we had to bottle out before we had got very far. Lochdon was a very pretty village and we stopped to take a couple of pictures before driving on to Grass Point, passing a family of Highland Cattle standing in the road.




At Grass Point we walked up to a promontory on the cliff overlooking Loch Don. The eagles were soaring over the bay but were too far away to photograph, although  it was a privilege to see them and Alan was happy. There was life on the grassy promontory too and a lark put on a show for us.



Here are some views over the Loch. The first is of Black's Memorial Lighthouse.




We came down from the point and drove south west to Loch Buie. This time a peacock was in the way! He moved sedately up the road for quite a way before deigning to move over.


By a small layby we met a girl with mud almost up to her arm pits and no shoes, who said she had just come from the Lochbuie stone circle. We could not resist the challenge so we picked our way across the bog to the edge of a wall and attached farm. Unfortunately we had not seen any photos of the monument so when we saw some trees around a circle of low stones we thought we had reached our destination. I photographed from all directions and in infrared as well. When I got home and had access to the web I realised the genuine article was a lot more impressive! I don't know how we missed it. We did however see a standing stone but little consolation!







On reaching the car there was thankfully a stream where Hettie could swim the mud off.















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