There did not seem to be anything special here to persuade us to make the long trip ashore, so we headed over to Loch Nevis for a brief recce as this is a place we would like to visit later, preferably in better weather. Loch Nevis has mountains all round and those on the windward (South) side are close to the loch. We soon started getting big gusts coming from the mountains, so dropped sails and motored to the visitors moorings at Inverie. We found the bay more sheltered than I had expected. There are a few houses and a pub. The unusual feature here is that although there is a road linking the houses around the loch it does not connect to the rest of the road network. This is part of the lonely Knoydart peninsula. To get here you either come by boat or have a full day’s walk from the nearest proper road.
This place needs a bit of time to explore properly, followed by a meal at the pub. There was not the time or weather for exploring, so we had lunch on a visitors’ mooring and headed to Arisaig, where we anchored in the Loch as our mooring is not available until tomorrow
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| The anchorage at Isle Ornsay |
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| View looking N up Sound od Sleat towards Kyle Rhea |
