Backblip: Duart Castle

Another rainy morning. We cannot leave the loch until high tide this afternoon, so four of us go ashore and walk along the shore away from Lochaline to Ardtonish Garden. We don’t visit (too little time, and it is very wet), but have an interesting chat to the chap in the gift shop about the 32,000 acre estate. It is owned by Hugh Raven, brother of Sarah who is married to Adam Nicholson who owned the Shiant islands before passing them onto his son.

At high tide we move on. We moor at Duant Bay and visit Duant Castle, “home” of the Maclean clan.

Then we head down the Sound of Mull to Loch Spelve. We moor up and chef K goes ashore to collect fresh mussels for this evening (extra).