This day was really a settling in day and we didn’t do any birding except to look from the ferry and keep an eye open for anything interesting as we drove from Craignure to Tobermory. We drove by our cottage, The Old Coastguards, to check it out even though we were a bit early and found Fi, the owner, cleaning it herself. We got into conversation and had a nice chat and she let us check in early. It was very impressive and I was glad I had had the forethought to pick a place that you could be comfortable in if it rained a lot because – it did ! They had had the three weeks of very hot weather the rest of the country had had but the poor weather we experienced in Galloway followed us and was to remain with us for the rest of the week.
We knew that it might be difficult getting somewhere to eat on our first night in Tobermory so we booked at the Galleon Grill where I had a great steak and Anne tucked into a huge Lobster